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It’s a failure for Californians and Americans but success for the companies and people behind the project. Boy the sure sold that dream well like helping homeless people, but yet did not hesitate to put migrants in hotels and give free healthcare and money. 😂😂😂
Failure? He’s richer! Where is the 11 billion? He accomplished exactly what he wanted along with the rest of the politicians. You don’t hear any complaints from them.
And yet California is the richest state and one of the richest economies in the world, and sends out huge federal money transfers to subsidize poor red states every year.
For several years in the early 1980's, the city of New York spent millions of dollars trying to fix the derelict ice rink in Central Park. It was a blight on the city for many years. Eventually the city gave up and decided to try something different. They hired a private contractor to refurbish, restore and get the ice rink back in working order. The contractor did an excellent job and got the job done months ahead of schedule and way under budget. He was a hero for "saving" the ice rink after the city tried and failed -- and wasted millions of dollars -- for many years. That contractor was Donald Trump.
@@DonZenOfficial yeah I grew up there. Just near it. Trump got operation of the concession stand some 30 year lease or something like that. He also did the same thing for United Nations building. The ice ring was closed for a few years. And then magically it was opened.
That’s because those laws have been highjacked by NIMBY groups who are just Astroturf for agrobusiness who have too much leverage and real estate associations that she all development as an assault by undesirables.
facts people working that bridge are getting paid a crazy amount. i was making 80 an hour doing low income apartments i can imagine what these guys are making.
The fact you think this was the only thing built shows just how uneducated you are. California completed 11 structures last year for the overall project. People like you are just dumb. You think it can all just magically appear without any of the prep work beforehand.
They’re not showing an under construction bridge to make fun of that. They’re showing an under construction bridge to make fun of the fact that this project has an overblown budget and runs as quickly as a snail.
As someone who’s lived in California his whole life they are never going to finish this thing in my lifetime. I’d say another 50 to 60 years it’ll be done.
This isn’t the only bridge to nowhere in California. There is a bridge and a tunnel to nowhere in the San Gabriel mountains. Our state government loves to waste money, and why not? They can just stick their hand deeper into our pockets at will.
I spoke with two women in a very high end luxury shop in California. They were in the shop buying once a week. Both worked for HSR. They admitted they did absolutely nothing all day. They both had answered a job ad from outside California.
11yrs???!! Pffffft I was told back in 6th grade it would be done by the time i graduated high school and I could go to college in LA or SF and ride it daily. He we are 30 years later and my kid graduates this year and it ain't done.
example of hawaii's failed skyline rail that is operating with 1 passenger 😂😂😂😂. The more taxes we pay, the more they steal from you. FJB and democrats
We have these cool things called cars in California, and we have alot of them… A new “high speed” train is irrelevant, just a new breeding ground for crime
The government doesn’t give a rusty crap how they waste Americans hard earned money. They care more about how much money they can give to other countries because it’s in their interests! Just pathetic!
Don't want ridiculed...we're laughing but SOME PEOPLE NEED TO GO TO JAIL. Obvious Obvious this did not cost $11 billion. FULL account of the money or jail time. Period.
i voted no for this train - first no homeless/hungry before i approve anything , also no forced (mandated) medication (drugs) - no rockets - smog check elon
This was NOT an $11B bridge. California HSR has spent $11B over SEVERAL DOZEN projects that have either been completed or are under construction. GET. YOUR. FACTS. CORRECT!
As a 3rd Gen Californian, driving to Vegas is a rite of passage….this bs train has been a nitemare for years. And the cost? Supposedly $400 plus for one person, one way. Bwahaha…f that
What a load of bs in this report. CAHSr will have trains going at speeds of 220mph the FASTEST AVERAGE speeds in the world right now. So much so that they are using a completely next gen architecture for the trains. China has spent a TRILLION DOLLARS on just High speed rail. Imagine that. And they employed 100,000 workers on average per day to work on their projects while California is making do with 5000 while dealing with 100 lawsuits, eminent domain issues none of which China had to face. And those bridges will eventually connect. Why are you selectively showing grade separation and not showing things like the wasco or the Hanford viaducts. Absolute behemoths.
As so in California, if you don't like what they are doing. Leave and the state will tax your investment and SSI. This state doesn't like senior citizens and businesses. They don't CARE!
@@p1xel1115 No. It would not. High speed rail connects cities; it does not bring regional commuters to work. Commuter trains make many stops, often only a few minutes in between. No distance for them to gain speed or slow down. They replace planes, not cars. And like planes, you still have to get to the terminal from your home and from the terminal to your destination at the other end. So many, many buses that need roads. Also trucks still need roads to deliver goods. And they already work in tandem with trains to achieve efficiency. High speed rail is amazingly expensive and, so far in this country, either not truly "high speed" or has cost billions and is still invisible.
@@cvn6555 I’m not saying that highways are a bad thing, it’s just that we spend money on them and nothing else. And you could theoretically use the train to commute to work, by living at a cheaper house in a smaller city served by the rail line, and go to San Francisco or Los Angeles for work.
Can’t really tell from the picture, but is this the bridge next to the 99 on the north end of Fresno? Because I swear that’s been under construction for over a decade now.
It’s sad that other countries are building miles and miles of new tracks for their rail lines every year while California can’t even complete 1 mile. And after 9 years still have nothing to show for but rendering of “what will be”. Come on California, with all that money and 9years this thing should’ve been up and running.
As a civil engineer registered here in California I have been following this project from the beginning (albeit not real closely). I was mildly excited about the project at first as I love using trains in Europe and Asia. Early on I reviewed the projects financials that were published online and, without going into the details, calculated that the poject wouldn't even pay for their own published O&M costs (this was around 2012 I think). That was the first flag. Then, as the project moved along I tried to get some idea on how much they had done. It should have been as simple as "We poured 560,00 Cu Yds of concrete this month" or something like that. That's all they are doing right now. Pouring concrete. You never saw any time lapse of construction or anything. Just pictures of things. And those pictures were interesting. Why all these elaborate structures to cross a freeway or rail line? If you look at the high speed rail lines in China (which we traveled extensively) and Spain (which we also traveled) you don't see anything like that. You see columns with pre-cast spans. China and Spain HSR lines look very similar. And we know they work fine. In 2020 we drove by the Hanford Flyover on our way to Sequoia National Park, the first time I saw any of the HSR infrastructure up close. Weird. There were columns sticking up but no work looked like it was going on. No construction equipment staged there and so on. 1 1/2 years later it looked exactly the same (although there was one crane truck at the site). Concrete cures to full design strength in 28 days. There was no reason not to keep working on the flyover. The more I read about this project the more I couldn't get past that it was just a boondoggle. No cost control. No accountability. And I highly doubt it will ever be built. It will actually save us quite a bit of money if it never is built. I could say that we should spend the money on a line between Downtown LA and San Diego but that's too obvious. The last straw for me was California HSR Authority is now spending millions (if not billions) on DESIGNING THE ROLLING STOCK! GOD! You're out of money! The rolling stock is a done deal! You have 75 seats, a place to store your luggage and a restroom! That's what you find in Spain. That's what you find in China. We don't need a 'safe space' for families. I could have simply summed all this up and said it was a boondoggle but what's the fun in that?
I'm very much environmentally conscious but this high speed rail project is an abomination and a joke. It would be cheaper and better for the environment to add a dedicated high speed lane on the freeway that can only be driven with electric vehicles.
The US has the most developed US Hiway and airline systems in the world. High speed rail will only compete with what we already have. Use history and your common sense to end throwing your grandchildren's money into a pit.
Chinese trains going twice as fast?! WTF are you talking about, no train goes 400 mph. Guy has no idea what he's talking about and still feels the need to share his opinion with the world.
and why you guys cry about corruption? the government official and senators got donation / lobbies (bribe) also form of corruption and all the time you guys are okay with that
People in CA won't believe that the government is corrupt. The whole history of corruption in CA, which everybody knew about when I was a kid in the 1950s, has been memory holed. Even when it's this obvious, they refuse to see it. As long as they get a cut of the loot, they think things are great.
Wonder how much of that $11 billion went in Gavin Newson’s pocket?
10 billion
@@protorhinocerator142be fare now, he shared with the other Demented Dumb DEM thieves! 😮😮😅😊
12?
We’ve been funding it for YEARS….f grewsome. I didn’t vote for this blue bs
Bingo
This is Governor Gavin Newsom California one of many failures!!
Partially correct!!!
Yeah, you should look into Obama’s high-speed rail train in California, super fast
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It’s a failure for Californians and Americans but success for the companies and people behind the project. Boy the sure sold that dream well like helping homeless people, but yet did not hesitate to put migrants in hotels and give free healthcare and money. 😂😂😂
Failure? He’s richer! Where is the 11 billion? He accomplished exactly what he wanted along with the rest of the politicians. You don’t hear any complaints from them.
Everything, I mean Everything the democrats touch turns to chit !
Biden is King Midas in reverse 😂
Amen
now that is not very inclusive, to the Gulag with you!
(the path has already been laid)
And yet California is the richest state and one of the richest economies in the world, and sends out huge federal money transfers to subsidize poor red states every year.
and that mindset is why nothing gets done, on either side of the spectrum.
For several years in the early 1980's, the city of New York spent millions of dollars trying to fix the derelict ice rink in Central Park. It was a blight on the city for many years. Eventually the city gave up and decided to try something different.
They hired a private contractor to refurbish, restore and get the ice rink back in working order. The contractor did an excellent job and got the job done months ahead of schedule and way under budget.
He was a hero for "saving" the ice rink after the city tried and failed -- and wasted millions of dollars -- for many years.
That contractor was Donald Trump.
How does this not have more likes? TRUMP 2024
How many times did Trump file for the bankruptcy?
@@thomaskim5008 at least he filed for bankruptcy instead of stealing to keep maintaining the wealth like many politicians do. What's wrong with that?
Is this a true story?
@@DonZenOfficial yeah I grew up there. Just near it. Trump got operation of the concession stand some 30 year lease or something like that. He also did the same thing for United Nations building. The ice ring was closed for a few years. And then magically it was opened.
The problem is not California, nor Rail. The problem is our federal environmental laws, it’s taking so slow and is so expensive because of lawsuits.
That’s because those laws have been highjacked by NIMBY groups who are just Astroturf for agrobusiness who have too much leverage and real estate associations that she all development as an assault by undesirables.
This is the Left, who loves putting up environmental roadblocks, also deciding they’d love to have a high speed train.
Not a failure. Much taxpayer money was laundered through contractors. The actual bridge itself was unimportant.
I'm glad others see the truth
So far, the project has accomplished it's objective.
facts people working that bridge are getting paid a crazy amount. i was making 80 an hour doing low income apartments i can imagine what these guys are making.
What a scam!
The whole state of Comifornia is a bridge to NOWHERE 😂
Prophecy says Cal is going to break off and fall into the ocean.
you should go back to eastern europe
You're wrong. It's a bridge to Newsom's extravagant life
😂
Land of Fruits and Nuts.
How fitting, a bridge going nowhere in a state going nowhere.
Sadly a Loser State thanks to their Governor
Going nowhere would be a significant improvement vs the high-speed descent into failure that California is currently in the middle of.
@@Tangent360could we give California back to Mexico?
Wrong, CA is going somewhere…
It’s just down in a rapid spiral into a ball of fire.
It is going somewhere. It will be part of the high speed rail system connecting California
You’re not hearing a single complaint from our politicians. They’re sooo much richer.
15 billion went into that concept art.
Typical California
High robbery
Train Robbery!
Why don’t you criticize Texas flooding infrastructure ! A private enterprise disaster
Democratic Leadership in full effect.
whether you like it or not it is being built and the IOS will be finished 2030-2033
someone got a huge kickback that’s why they did it
That's a joke, right? 11 BILLION for a half mile bridge connected to...nothing??? WTF??
The fact you think this was the only thing built shows just how uneducated you are. California completed 11 structures last year for the overall project.
People like you are just dumb. You think it can all just magically appear without any of the prep work beforehand.
This bridge actually does not look like that. There an entire guideway attached to it.
Fox New is stupid. Sowing an under-construction bridge that will be part of whole railway line and then making fun of it.
They’re not showing an under construction bridge to make fun of that. They’re showing an under construction bridge to make fun of the fact that this project has an overblown budget and runs as quickly as a snail.
11 billion! Do you know how many illegals we could support with that!
Don't encourage our demise
How about helping the homeless Americans.
Deport illegals to their homes.
😂
The bridge and the state of California are going to nowhere...It's time for the people in California to remove newson ASAP
The people of CA are the problem.
Just in! Homeless are already moving to that slab of concrete.
Good Idea. 😂
By the time they finish this, we will all just teleport everywhere.
The crew of the Enterprise will watch the completion of the high speed rail system and say, "How quaint."
As someone who’s lived in California his whole life they are never going to finish this thing in my lifetime. I’d say another 50 to 60 years it’ll be done.
This isn’t the only bridge to nowhere in California. There is a bridge and a tunnel to nowhere in the San Gabriel mountains. Our state government loves to waste money, and why not? They can just stick their hand deeper into our pockets at will.
He’s just taking money into he’s pockets!!!!!!!!!! So frustrating
California tax payers getting wrecked from Notth, South, East, West
I spoke with two women in a very high end luxury shop in California. They were in the shop buying once a week. Both worked for HSR. They admitted they did absolutely nothing all day. They both had answered a job ad from outside California.
I'll take "things that didn't happen for 200", Ken.
So who got the money for this project?
The left ofcourse
Unions!
That’s Hawai’i’s Rail System
11yrs???!! Pffffft I was told back in 6th grade it would be done by the time i graduated high school and I could go to college in LA or SF and ride it daily. He we are 30 years later and my kid graduates this year and it ain't done.
Give it a couple of decades. It'll still go nowhere, be even further over budget, and be severely obsolete!!!
That's what California is great at doing: WASTING TAXPAYER MONEY
example of hawaii's failed skyline rail that is operating with 1 passenger 😂😂😂😂. The more taxes we pay, the more they steal from you. FJB and democrats
Accountability. Do an audit. Find where the money went 😡😡😡
An 11 billion dollar bridge to nowhere that sounds like that must be Governor nuisance
Those concrete slabs attract graffiti taggers and homeless.
Ridiculed? This is criminal.
11 Billion Dollars for that? INSANEEEE!!!
The Chinese trains don't go twice as fast as what the California High-Speed Rail will go.
I saw a fact checker that said this was a scam.
Money laundering nothing to see here
We have these cool things called cars in California, and we have alot of them… A new “high speed” train is irrelevant, just a new breeding ground for crime
Tweaker transport.
It gives the homeless somewhere to sleep.
Train stations and bus terminals do tend to attract criminal elements...
@@starventure or, _DO_ they ?
The government doesn’t give a rusty crap how they waste Americans hard earned money. They care more about how much money they can give to other countries because it’s in their interests! Just pathetic!
Instead of auditing small businesses we need to audit the government
Don't want ridiculed...we're laughing but SOME PEOPLE NEED TO GO TO JAIL. Obvious Obvious this did not cost $11 billion. FULL account of the money or jail time. Period.
Who's accountable?
Nobody. It's a Democrat state, so it's all just peachy.
Taxpayers
If you paid $20,000 a year in taxes it would take 50K years to pay 1 billion dollars.
What a nice concrete sunshade for the homeless.
i voted no for this train - first no homeless/hungry before i approve anything , also no forced (mandated) medication (drugs) - no rockets - smog check elon
We want an Audit on this train!
11 billion! that should go to welfare buildout!
California and Californian's are ridiculed for more than that
Bottom of the Bridge will be the Tent City for the homeless. Top of the Bridge will be 5 Star Balcony Restaurants and Bars for corrupt politicians.
This was NOT an $11B bridge. California HSR has spent $11B over SEVERAL DOZEN projects that have either been completed or are under construction. GET. YOUR. FACTS. CORRECT!
Where is the accountability and who at fault ....
Monorail !!!!! Monorail!!! MONORAILLLL!!!!!!!
As a 3rd Gen Californian, driving to Vegas is a rite of passage….this bs train has been a nitemare for years. And the cost? Supposedly $400 plus for one person, one way. Bwahaha…f that
You're literally talking about 2 different projects.
Typical uneducated fox viewer.
What a load of bs in this report. CAHSr will have trains going at speeds of 220mph the FASTEST AVERAGE speeds in the world right now. So much so that they are using a completely next gen architecture for the trains. China has spent a TRILLION DOLLARS on just High speed rail. Imagine that. And they employed 100,000 workers on average per day to work on their projects while California is making do with 5000 while dealing with 100 lawsuits, eminent domain issues none of which China had to face. And those bridges will eventually connect. Why are you selectively showing grade separation and not showing things like the wasco or the Hanford viaducts. Absolute behemoths.
As so in California, if you don't like what they are doing. Leave and the state will tax your investment and SSI. This state doesn't like senior citizens and businesses. They don't CARE!
Plenty more billions to waste on the train to nowhere.. just watch.
Investigate where the $11 billion went before any new projects.
That small section of construction did not cost a billion.
Correct. It cost ELEVEN billion.
@@RobinDale50 Well, somebody spent 11b.dollars but surely it didn't actually cost that much to build . . . ?
Newsome will call it art!
What about the high-speed rail line? How much was that???????
O no, not in California too. This sounds like something Canada would have.
Its called greed you can deny it all you want to but its still greed. Greed has brought down every great civilization before us. Ignorance is bliss.
Governments are the greediest institutions in the country.
And yet how many billions upon billions are wasted on overly congested highways that pollute california's natural beauty?
Those highways that allow people to get to work and travel to appointments? Those highways?
Yeah I don't understand that. How many more lanes there need to be to "fix traffic." Just ruining the landscape
@@cvn6555That’s the same thing the highs speed rail could do better. 220 mph is much much faster than 80.
@@p1xel1115 No. It would not. High speed rail connects cities; it does not bring regional commuters to work. Commuter trains make many stops, often only a few minutes in between. No distance for them to gain speed or slow down. They replace planes, not cars. And like planes, you still have to get to the terminal from your home and from the terminal to your destination at the other end. So many, many buses that need roads. Also trucks still need roads to deliver goods. And they already work in tandem with trains to achieve efficiency. High speed rail is amazingly expensive and, so far in this country, either not truly "high speed" or has cost billions and is still invisible.
@@cvn6555 I’m not saying that highways are a bad thing, it’s just that we spend money on them and nothing else. And you could theoretically use the train to commute to work, by living at a cheaper house in a smaller city served by the rail line, and go to San Francisco or Los Angeles for work.
Can’t really tell from the picture, but is this the bridge next to the 99 on the north end of Fresno? Because I swear that’s been under construction for over a decade now.
The bridge is to shelter all the homeless and drug addicts
The Governor and Legislators are looking for the Federal government to bailout the train to nowhere.
The high speed rail in California will never be completed
Their idea of high speed rail is 35 mph.
What about the 1.8 million small public bathroom???
Great my tax dollars at work 🤦♂️
It’s sad that other countries are building miles and miles of new tracks for their rail lines every year while California can’t even complete 1 mile. And after 9 years still have nothing to show for but rendering of “what will be”. Come on California, with all that money and 9years this thing should’ve been up and running.
Definitely doesn't cost that much. People getting rich off tax money
As a civil engineer registered here in California I have been following this project from the beginning (albeit not real closely). I was mildly excited about the project at first as I love using trains in Europe and Asia. Early on I reviewed the projects financials that were published online and, without going into the details, calculated that the poject wouldn't even pay for their own published O&M costs (this was around 2012 I think). That was the first flag. Then, as the project moved along I tried to get some idea on how much they had done. It should have been as simple as "We poured 560,00 Cu Yds of concrete this month" or something like that. That's all they are doing right now. Pouring concrete. You never saw any time lapse of construction or anything. Just pictures of things. And those pictures were interesting. Why all these elaborate structures to cross a freeway or rail line? If you look at the high speed rail lines in China (which we traveled extensively) and Spain (which we also traveled) you don't see anything like that. You see columns with pre-cast spans. China and Spain HSR lines look very similar. And we know they work fine. In 2020 we drove by the Hanford Flyover on our way to Sequoia National Park, the first time I saw any of the HSR infrastructure up close. Weird. There were columns sticking up but no work looked like it was going on. No construction equipment staged there and so on. 1 1/2 years later it looked exactly the same (although there was one crane truck at the site). Concrete cures to full design strength in 28 days. There was no reason not to keep working on the flyover. The more I read about this project the more I couldn't get past that it was just a boondoggle. No cost control. No accountability. And I highly doubt it will ever be built. It will actually save us quite a bit of money if it never is built. I could say that we should spend the money on a line between Downtown LA and San Diego but that's too obvious. The last straw for me was California HSR Authority is now spending millions (if not billions) on DESIGNING THE ROLLING STOCK! GOD! You're out of money! The rolling stock is a done deal! You have 75 seats, a place to store your luggage and a restroom! That's what you find in Spain. That's what you find in China. We don't need a 'safe space' for families. I could have simply summed all this up and said it was a boondoggle but what's the fun in that?
11 billion right into there pockets!😮
Welcome to democracy...nice to meet u communist 😂😂😂
I’m sure less than half that money was actually spent on the bridge. We know how it goes in California
Lesson number 1, don't move to California unless you have a Law degree.
All it is a waste of taxpayer money. The train to nowhere and Newsom things its great.
Where are the homeless people in these railway photos?
What a joke.
Where is the accountability for this state enough is enough wake up California what’s wrong with you people 👎
Govt: We are super efficient... *_at wasting your money!_*
Name one state that is working Americans' benefits, so I can go there.
(Don't say Hawaii because housing costs are over my budget.)
Simpsons escalator to nowhere
That's not entirely correct... it does connect to the high speed train station...
I'm very much environmentally conscious but this high speed rail project is an abomination and a joke. It would be cheaper and better for the environment to add a dedicated high speed lane on the freeway that can only be driven with electric vehicles.
BLA BLA BLA this Democrat
I laughed when the -project- boondoggle was announced. I’m enjoying myself further now.
This and foreign aid has destroyed the middle class
The US has the most developed US Hiway and airline systems in the world. High speed rail will only compete with what we already have. Use history and your common sense to end throwing your grandchildren's money into a pit.
We don't know what the F#@% were doing. People at the top of High Speed Rail Authority are becoming richer than Super lotto winners.
That was the point of the project.
The bridge is for all the homeless to have a permanent home.
It’s called money laundering 👊🏼
Chinese trains going twice as fast?! WTF are you talking about, no train goes 400 mph. Guy has no idea what he's talking about and still feels the need to share his opinion with the world.
and why you guys cry about corruption? the government official and senators got donation / lobbies (bribe) also form of corruption and all the time you guys are okay with that
People in CA won't believe that the government is corrupt. The whole history of corruption in CA, which everybody knew about when I was a kid in the 1950s, has been memory holed. Even when it's this obvious, they refuse to see it. As long as they get a cut of the loot, they think things are great.
By the time they finish people would have probably invented teleportation 😂
It could be finished sooner if people didn´t try to stop the construction and funding