California will not complete $77B high-speed rail project: governor

Re:California will not complete $77B high-speed rail project... by dragonwriter on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @06:42PM (#19148875)

> Merced, Madera, Fresno, Tulare, and Kern counties have a combined population of ~2.9 million. For the $77 billion price tag, you could buy a Toyota Prius for every single resident of the entire area served by HSR (including children), and still have ~$8 billion left over.

The $77 billion price tag was the most recent year-of-expenditure estimate (which kept going up,in no small part because the year of expenditures kept getting later) for the whole originally planned system (well, the SF to LA part, not including the Sacramento and San Diego connections that were to be done afterwards.)

The small segment Newsome refers to isn't anywhere close to $77B.

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Re:California will not complete $77B high-speed rail project... by alexhutcheson on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @06:45PM (#19148895)

Good catch, I misread. I would be interested to see the projected cost of the de-scoped project.

Operating & maintenance costs would also be critical to determining whether this actually makes any sense.

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