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Leon <elonx@protonmail.com> wrote in news:umqldr$1jis6$5@dont-email.me:

Where is the GSA and FBI? California Democrats have stolen the money
and not used it as intended.

There is something wrong with so much federal money going straight into
the pockets of one state – and one of the wealthiest states at that.

NRPlus Member Article {u} In the dark of the night (ie, the dark
corridors of federal bureaucracy), the Biden administration gave
California $6 billion for two high-speed-rail projects. The Golden
State’s high-speed-rail arrogance has been a big, dark, cash pit since
the Obama administration.

Earlier this month, California Governor Gavin Newsom’s office happily
announced that the California High-Speed ??Rail Authority “will receive approximately $3.1 billion for construction in the Central Valley, the
overall ultimate goal of connecting San Francisco to Los Angeles.” will
support the goal,” while the rail project, Brightline, “will receive $3
billion to connect Los Angeles to Las Vegas, with 80% of the project
being constructed in California, benefiting the state’s economy and
labor market.”

Governor Newsom announced, “California is embarking on the first
220-mph, electric high-speed rail project in the nation. This show of
support from the Biden-Harris Administration is a vote of confidence in
today’s vision and a significant turning point.” The $3.1 billion grant
from President Biden’s landmark Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
is the largest grant received by the California High-Speed ??Rail
Authority (CHSRA).

The CHSRA, which was first established in 1996, has faced criticism from
every corner – fiduciary conservatives, environmentalists, indigenous
tribes, farmers and even a young Phil Klein joined the disgraced group.
went. Such condemnation is justified. The first phase of train
construction is estimated to cost $35 billion. The cost of building a
train from Los Angeles to San Francisco is estimated to exceed $100
billion. With that kind of money the US could finance the entire
Trumpian border wall – or score a victory in Ukraine.

The most recent funding is for the initial phase of the project: to
establish a high-speed train line between Merced’s metropolitan center
and Paris, Bakersfield to the west. So, with one stroke, the Biden administration has approved $6 billion for the high-speed train. , ,
Merced? A city with barely 90,000 residents? Don’t get me wrong, I love
trains. I want American trains to be better, faster, cheaper, more
efficient, etc. I have said all this before. But if the federal
government is going to spend billions of dollars on a rail project, the recipient should obviously be the Northeast Corridor Line, which
accounts for more Amtrak users than all other lines in the entire
country.

The Northeast Corridor regional line is the only passenger line to make
a profit in fiscal year 2022. (I should mention that Amtrak has another profitable line, the Auto Train, which made $22 million last year
transporting cars and their drivers to and from the D.C. area and
Florida. Americans love their cars so much that The train, built to
carry cars, is Amtrak’s most profitable train.)

The Northeast Corridor Line primarily offers rides between Boston and Washington, DC, with stops in cities such as New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore along the way. The NEC line operates in the most densely
populated part of the United States, where the train has millions of
annual users – about 10 million of them. Lord knows it could use the
money.

Instead of investing in the most used — and thus most essential to the
average American — train line, Biden is giving California $6 billion
dollars For a project that appears doomed to regular profit losses and underutilization compared to the unprofitable, long-distance Amtrak
lines currently serving the West Coast state.

According to a report by the Eno Center for Transportation, all of
Amtrak’s worst performing lines are in California.

By orders of magnitude, the nation’s most money-losing train line in
2022 was the Sunset Limited, which carries passengers from Los Angeles
to New Orleans with stops in Phoenix, Tucson and San Antonio. Sunset
Ltd. reports operating loss of $566 per passenger In fiscal year 2022.
The Sunset Limited also claimed the lowest ridership among all of
Amtrak’s lines. In 2022, only 73,900 passengers traveled on the line,
resulting in a total adjusted loss of approximately $41,800,000.

Right behind the Sunset Limited on the list of failed Amtrak lines is
another train that served California: the Southwest Chief. The line,
which travels from Los Angeles to Chicago and stops in Flagstaff,
Albuquerque and Kansas City, recorded the second-largest loss of $288.33
per passenger in 2022. Southwest Chief also recorded a huge overall loss
in fiscal year 2022 – accumulating $64,500,000 in profit loss.

But let’s not forget the California Zephyr! In just 51 hours, passengers
on the California Zephyr can travel from San Francisco to Chicago, with
stops in Salt Lake City, Denver and Omaha.

Compared to every other Amtrak line, the cost to operate the Zephyr is
the highest at $120,800,000 per year. With fewer than 300,000 riders in
fiscal year 2022, the Zephyr recorded the largest loss of profit among
all of Amtrak’s lines: $65,700,000.

There is something wrong with so much federal money going straight into
the pockets of one state – and one of the wealthiest states at that.
While the proposed project also includes the aforementioned
“Brightline,” a line that would connect Los Angeles to Las Vegas — and
thus cut off a portion of federal funding to Nevada — the majority of
the $6 billion will go to Gavin Newsom’s playground to prosper. is
scheduled to do.

While high-speed trains within the state will undoubtedly provide a
service that is not available through current train lines, the entire
wasteland of Amtrak in California should give officials some pause
before sinking another $6 billion into a utopian dream. Should have
given.

https://nationworldnews.com/biden-administration-invests-6-billion-in-uto pian-california-train-line/

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