California’s heavily criticized “train to nowhere” got back the billion dollars in federal funding that the Trump administration stripped from the wildly expensive project.
“Tonight’s action by the federal government is further proof that California and the Biden-Harris Administration share a common vision — clean, electrified transportation that will serve generations to come,” Gov. Gavin Newsom commented.
The Trump administration did not share that vision, which was intended to be a high-speed rail project that would span the entire state when the federal government agreed to provide $3.5 billion towards construction in 2010.
By 2019, Newsom admitted that the behind-schedule project was too large and wildly expensive. “There’s been too little oversight and not enough transparency,” he confessed. “Right now, there simply isn’t a path to get from Sacramento to San Diego, let alone from San Francisco to L.A. I wish there were.”
When Newsom scaled back the railway to a 119-mile strip through California’s Central Valley dubbed the “train to nowhere,” the Trump admin tried to take the government funding back, but could only recover the billion dollars that hadn’t been spent.
Like many Trump-era orders, the Biden administration reversed the decision to defund the California High-Speed Rail Project and reinstated the endowment.
“Restoring nearly $929 million in grant funding back to California’s High-Speed Rail project will continue to spur job creation, advance the project and move the state one step closer to getting trains running in California as soon as possible,” Newsom remarked in a statement. “We thank the Biden-Harris Administration and Secretary [Pete] Buttigieg for their partnership on this important step forward.”
Biden the moron is workning on destroying the economy of this country !
We dont need it in CA
lousy English to follow – YER RIGHT – It don’t go nowhere from nowhere!!!!!!!!!!
Biden is a moron, We don’t need a bullet train in California. It is a waste of taxpayers money.
Can you imagine how much of that money scimmed off the top of the failed project was used to pay for meals at The French Laundry and stock up Nancy’s 25.000.00 ice cream freezer?
That money would be better used to pay for all the hotel bills and meals the Biden administration has stolen from American taxpayers to give to illegal aliens breaching our borders. It’s comforting to know that these criminals are staying in hotels and eating in the dining rooms of hotels the hard working taxpayers could never afford. The Bullet train money is a gift to Nusome and Nancy. The billions scraped off the top of this failed, now revived project paid for a lot of meals at The French Laundry.
Pedo Joe is paying off those who CHEATED him and the Ho into Office.
Just keep on destroying the country Biden You won’t be able to buy your way out of this Bankruptcy