Jim Glynn’s April 19 column of California High Speed Rail (HSR) is real telling with an extraordinary amount of information.
For myself, I can not get past the fraud perpetrated from the beginning.
Fraud 1: In 2008, voters were led to believe the cost of HSR would be $10 billion. We might want to believe that there were some miscalculations in the preliminary study. How could planners not see the extreme cost of buying land for the right of ways in Silicon Valley, the San Francisco Peninsula and the Los Angeles Basin? How could they not see the earthquake fault line problems through the Grapevine mountains that would redirect the route through the Tehachapi mountains, adding cost? The projected cost went from $10- to $40- to $90- to $110- to $85- and now back to $120- to $130 billion! Poor planning? The original proposition on 2008 was a fraud.