Comments on: High-speed rail agency lacks leader at crucial juncture

By: Spurwing Plover

Spurwing Plover — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 19:53:13 +0000

The Porklines rail road

By: Queeg

Queeg — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 15:40:41 +0000

In reply to Howard Epstein.

Comrades

All monarchs had favorite toys…..now get back to kissing his ring-

By: Howard Epstein

Howard Epstein — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 15:10:21 +0000

If you liked Boston’s Big Dig and the Bay Bridge fiasco, you’ll love the Moonbeam Express.

By: ricky65

ricky65 — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 05:00:30 +0000

Quite fitting actually.
A runaway train with no one at the controls except a power mad lunatic Don Quixote Brown slewing imaginary climate windmills while the state spirals into bankruptcy.
His legacy will be about as long lasting as a piss rivulet on a sand dune in the middle of the windy Sahara desert.

By: Ulysses Uhaul

Ulysses Uhaul — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 04:31:39 +0000

It will be built…..you all know it……chill

By: Dude

Dude — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 02:38:31 +0000

We don’t need an agency “leader” to help us shut down the boondoggle also known as the Brown Streak.

By: Doug

Doug — Tue, 20 Jun 2017 17:50:37 +0000

Democrat policies at their best…….

The Democratic Party currently holds supermajorities in both chambers of the California Legislature. The state senate currently consists of 27 Democrats and 13 Republicans, and the Assembly consists of 55 Democrats and 25 Republicans. Except for the period from 1995 to 1996, the Assembly has been in Democratic hands since the 1970 election (even while the governor’s office has gone back and forth between Republicans and Democrats). The Senate has been in Democratic hands continuously since
1970.

Why would anyone be surprised that this JB boondoggle is failing?

According to a federal report prepared under the Obama administration, the state’s high-speed rail project is already seven years behind schedule and on its way to having a 50 percent cost overrun on the $6.4 billion, 118-mile first segment now being built in the Central Valley.

If the Legislature spent less time at Frank Fat’s drinking and more sober time trying to do the people’s work, the state might have better roads and have never started this money pit project to begin with. Like the Bay Bridge, spend 20 years and billions building a new bridge but not increasing the number of lanes. No one thought to include the massive increase in population that are using the bridge now. Seems like another leaning skyscraper built on fill thinking all over again. Way to go Sacto.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 20 Jun 2017 16:36:19 +0000

Put a fork in it! It is DONE!!!