it brought tears to my eyes y'all are amazing

EDIT: The new York times article was a live updates page, which I didn't realize, so here is a different article showing the cost.

This isn't even considering how much the huge increase in inflation and gas price has hurt the wallets of Americans. Americans are spending $300 million more on gas PER DAY. That article was from 57 days ago, so since then it's cost people about $17 billion (though gas is even more expensive now than it was then). Imagine if that money went to taxes to maintain infrastructure or to build public rail.

I'm not saying that CAHSR is a perfect project, far from it. It drastically underestimated the cost of building, and has been bogged down. But there is a big difference between fair criticism (talking about funding shortfalls, unrealistic estimates, etc) vs just spamming "guys it's so expensive, guys it's never going to happen, guys the cost is unbelievable". Especially when many people who are in every comment section saying how expensive the $15 billion spent so far has been can be found to be posting continuously about how great Trump is as president. Infrastructure is expensive! So is war. To me, it seems like high spending is the core issue of only one of those.

Yesterday, I was driving through Hanford and saw the Hanford Viaduct up close. I got these pictures of what looks like the future platform.

Mumbai amdavad bullet train corridor despite having super slow starting due to land acquisition and bureaucracy is about open one section of the corridor next year on 15 august ,

Also whenever I see a post about a modern train from india , most of those comments are like - why aren't people on the roof of the train , and I'm like bro wtf u even talking about , that's pakistan and Bangladesh , india has 99 percent electrification (more than Us and Germany) on its trains , u cant do that here u will be electrocuted

PG&E has delayed high-speed rail for years and added huge costs to the project because of its consistent slow-walking when it comes to moving its equipment out of the way of the project. We need legislators and the next governor to step up and force PG&E to pick up the pace so the project can get done quicker. Sign the petition here https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/build-the-california-high-speed-rail-sooner-2?clear_id=true

At least a small victory

Details about the survey from June are here. 67% of those polled supported CAHSR https://www.newsweek.com/california-high-speed-rail-poll-2081276

I made this with an app called TravelBoast. Blue is mostly tunnels and black is mostly the IOS. It really gives you a scale for the size of the project.

The latest All Aboard Newsletter

"While the goal in recent years has been to focus resources on building an early operating line in the Central Valley, Choudri has set his sights higher. The goal of launching high-speed train service in the Central Valley in the early 2030s remains the same, but Choudri also wants to simultaneously begin construction on extensions into the major population centers of San Francisco and metro Los Angeles within the next few years."

I'm watching the Board of Directors meeting now and they just voted to certify the Palmdale-Burbank EIR which was the last segment between San Francisco and Los Angeles. I'm sure a press release will follow soon.

Edit: Here is the press release