Billions Wasted? Elon Needs to Take Over This New Transportation

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  • Опубліковано 13 гру 2024

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  • @BushidoNinja
    @BushidoNinja 2 дні тому +46

    I would love to see all the reciepts for the railroad project.

  • @jkim4202
    @jkim4202 День тому +27

    California's high-speed railroad project has been the largest "laundromat for money" in the state so far.

  • @papasmurf3024
    @papasmurf3024 День тому +14

    We had the same grift in the UK with HS2. Phase 1, A high speed line from London to Birmingham 140 miles at a cost of £396 million a mile was started in 2017. Its still not completed and Phase 2 has been cancelled.

    • @MrStark-up6fi
      @MrStark-up6fi День тому

      @@papasmurf3024 that sounds like a useless project. Don’t you guys, like, already have fast trains? Especially between London and Birmingham?

    • @norwegianblue2017
      @norwegianblue2017 3 години тому

      When they first started getting ready to build the California HSR, they enlisted the help of a major French train company, which was a great idea. They were experts in their field. Then they promptly ignored every bit of advice and decided to do the project "in house". The French company threw up their hands in disgust at how dysfunctional the California state government was and moved on to help an African country build a rail. Well, that rail line has long been completed in Africa, still can't ride anything in California and the master plan is laughably designed/routed. Adding insult to injury, a private company in Florida (Brightline) put in a modern rail line from Miami to Orland (235 miles) in four years.

  • @MrGamecubeVT
    @MrGamecubeVT 2 дні тому +40

    Look, I'm all for high speed railways, but how do you blow so much money on so little...

    • @carlospadilla7247
      @carlospadilla7247 День тому +4

      Communists do that kinda shit all the time

    • @CellBlok69wLamp
      @CellBlok69wLamp День тому +5

      Well, thats what happens when unions are involved...

    • @jeb.bush.2016
      @jeb.bush.2016 День тому +3

      Newsom needed hair gel money is my bet

    • @jbullforg
      @jbullforg День тому +3

      I don't know what the terrain is like, but high speed rail needs much shallower grades and curves than roads, or slow rail.
      Tunnels and bridges are also very expensive.
      If there is a large amount of landscaping required, it could easily cause large blowouts in time and cost.

    • @jonathanradut2595
      @jonathanradut2595 День тому +2

      Exactly and how can it take so long in this day and age.

  • @Bullwinkle056
    @Bullwinkle056 День тому +9

    Government in action: 1) Remove train tracks from old rail lines. 2) Turn the old lines into bike paths. 3) Pay a king's ransome for new land upon which to build new light rail lines.

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    @belinda.oliphant День тому +15

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  • @Margot_est_douce.
    @Margot_est_douce. День тому +21

    For sure one of your best videos yet!

  • @cowboycassanova90
    @cowboycassanova90 День тому +2

    Elon could have people on transcontinental rockets before that stupid rail project is finished

  • @VictorTucker-o6h
    @VictorTucker-o6h День тому +6

    Money laundering.

  • @dawnmathis2659
    @dawnmathis2659 День тому +2

    They had a rail system. They tore it out.🤡🤡🤡

  • @Amarok-7
    @Amarok-7 День тому +3

    We french managed the high speed trains back in the day. And it's real good. But like in commifornia (I should say California now ?) ? Well in France, it's only some roads leading to paris...

  • @ThatBoomerDude56
    @ThatBoomerDude56 День тому +2

    Nobody goes to Bakersfield.
    And nobody even knows where Merced even is.

  • @Sinner-sv2pi
    @Sinner-sv2pi День тому +13

    So Glad I Took My Tax Dollars Out Of Commiefornia 2 Years Ago!!!! 😀

  • @NancyHill-v7n
    @NancyHill-v7n 2 дні тому +19

    The vibe in this vid is everything!

  • @startthebengine
    @startthebengine День тому +1

    It's a train. I just cannot fathom.... This is embezzling. It's IMPOSSIBLE to be this incompetent. You CANNOT spend 10 years, spend billions, and have nothing to show for it. You can't. It's not possible. They stole that money.

  • @lisaroberts259
    @lisaroberts259 2 дні тому +8

    SOUNDS LIKE AN EXCUSE TO PUT MORE MONEY INTO THE POCKETS OF CALIFORNIA POLITICIANS 🤔 SMH

  • @derspeed5796
    @derspeed5796 2 дні тому +4

    😅Weiner wants to go softer.
    Anyway, Joe tried to cut off Tesla as competition for GM.

  • @stickman-1
    @stickman-1 День тому +1

    Just give me ONE example in the last 50 years where the government did any project better or equal to any project the private sector did. The last time the US Gov did anything within a budget of reality was the Apollo missions and the interstate highway system. And they were in the 1960's and 1950's. This government has done nothing but squandered taxpayers dollars for the last 50 years.

    • @MrStark-up6fi
      @MrStark-up6fi День тому

      @@stickman-1 the Apollo mission was a success but the Interstate Highway has put the government in massive debt and owes each American $250,000

    • @stickman-1
      @stickman-1 День тому

      @@MrStark-up6fi I guess it depends on your criteria for "success." The interstate highway system had a secondary result: it helps move the population toward the rest of the country instead of being all crammed up in a few states. It has "distributed" our population across the entire country. To get into the debt aspect is an entire other issue. If that is your criteria, then NOTHING since 1913 could be considered a success.

  • @ericotto314
    @ericotto314 День тому

    This clip was so fire, oh man, had me dead when he said “making the laws more lenient for grown men to -- with little boys” is Scott Wiener’s claim to fame. 💯

  • @SamanthaChapman-n3c
    @SamanthaChapman-n3c День тому

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  • @Enkid4675
    @Enkid4675 День тому +3

    3 hour drive that would be an hourish in the train. But you’d have to wait for the departure time. So plan ahead for 2-4 hours of wasted time so you can get where you need to be at the time you need to be there… of you could just leave a few minutes early by car to account for traffic.

    • @cordasuenaviolin604
      @cordasuenaviolin604 День тому +1

      As someone who lives in Europe where we have high-speed rail, it's good, but you need it to run from one city centre to another.

    • @Enkid4675
      @Enkid4675 День тому

      @ how often do the trains run though and what happens if you miss you train or worse the last train home? I’d love the idea of being able to sit and read a book on my commute but I seriously question how much wasted time I’d have waiting that I could’ve spent at home.
      We have a Dart Rail near me. Years ago my brother tried taking it to work because of traffic and parking and the cost of it. The Dart Rail was cheaper. Drive was about 1.5 hours, train was about 40 minutes. Parking was closer and a safer walk. Dart Rail was a longer sketchier walk. He missed the train a few times right after leaving work on a normal day and had to wait over an hour for the next train. He got stuck working late one night, missed the last train and got to wait in a sketchy area for an hour before I could pick him up.

    • @gregorymoore2877
      @gregorymoore2877 День тому

      Bonus: Once you get there, you don't have your car with you.

    • @cordasuenaviolin604
      @cordasuenaviolin604 День тому

      @@Enkid4675 I mean usually trains for regional services run like every 30 mins. High speed services (France to England or Germany) run every hour.
      Usually trains run till 1 or 2 AM so there's no need to worry about missing the last train unless you're out partying on a weekend.
      It's really nice cuz the trains run from city centre to city centre. And even when we have to travel from the station, there's a good bus network

    • @cordasuenaviolin604
      @cordasuenaviolin604 День тому

      @@gregorymoore2877 Yup, there's no need for that because there's a good bus network in most places

  • @cheezeandcrackers
    @cheezeandcrackers День тому

    I live in the middle of that high speed rail line. No body here wants it. There's no reason to go from Merced to Bakersfield or any other stop between those locations. The Republican Mayors in the Central Valley will pretend they want HSR to be on Newscums good side and because the stations will bring temporary jobs, but they all know it's a terrible idea too.

    • @MrStark-up6fi
      @MrStark-up6fi День тому

      @@cheezeandcrackers I still find it to be better than the boondoggle of all boondoggles: Saudi Arabia’s line city

  • @MEL.FreeToRoam
    @MEL.FreeToRoam 14 годин тому

    You might want to find out who owns/who has shares to the companies used to “build” this project, definitely used to line pockets

  • @EvilMonk20
    @EvilMonk20 День тому +3

    Spent more on this farcical train than you have on Ukraine. Let that sink in for a moment lmao

  • @MrStark-up6fi
    @MrStark-up6fi День тому +2

    There’s a high-speed rail line being built by a private company between Los Angeles and Las Vegas and another between Dallas and Houston. Watch as they get completed before the boondoggle does

    • @orionstransit
      @orionstransit День тому

      Exactly! Being pro-rail is important for us conservatives, we just have to support mainline commuter and intercity rail, instead of HSR and urban bus/light rail/subway boondoggles.

  • @orionstransit
    @orionstransit День тому

    CAHSR is a waste of money. It was wasteful from day 0.
    That money must go to mainline rail instead. Mainline rail is the standard profile of rail that supports commuter, intercity, and freight trains. So lets stop wasting money on CAHSR and urban transit boondoggles (buses, light rail, and subways), and invest in mainlines instead! I want to see more commuter rail service and Amtrak service, not another penny spent on the CAHSR boondoggle!

    • @night6724
      @night6724 День тому +1

      That private company HSR between socal and Vegas will get done before this

  • @michaelsparks6084
    @michaelsparks6084 День тому +5

    Mike, let me help you with this, we just moved to Florida from central California, exactly where that tiny stretch of HIGH SPEED rail is supposedly to be built. The only thing that has been built are some bridges and over passes, I have never seen anything tying them together

  • @charlescrawford9972
    @charlescrawford9972 День тому

    Remember when the wall was a waste of taxpayer money?

  • @stuartkorte1642
    @stuartkorte1642 День тому

    So glad Florida didn’t go down the very costly rail that’s runs at 0 mph. The right discussion is what percentage of funding for Ukraine and High Speed Rail finds it’s way to numerous offshore accounts.

  • @lisaroberts259
    @lisaroberts259 День тому +1

    THAT'S FUNNY MUSK AND VIVEK AIN'T EVEN GETTING PAID UNLIKE ALL THESE PEOPLE THAT DON'T EVEN GO TO WORK WHO HAS JOBS AT THE WHITEHOUSE

  • @MJStankie
    @MJStankie День тому

    Didn’t Musk squander millions on Hyperloop?

  • @ShuttheFrontDoor-gk3ot
    @ShuttheFrontDoor-gk3ot 2 дні тому +1

    Central valley resident here, drive by these rail tracks weekly. It's a joke. Scammmm baby. Train to no where. I think of that Simpsons episode with the monorail.

  • @Digganob590
    @Digganob590 День тому +1

    They oughta spend that kind of money on things like residences for their incredible homeless population, so they can stop living like rats in tunnels, instead of on some bougie mobiles.

    • @ThatcherFin
      @ThatcherFin День тому +1

      Honestly! 10 billion dollars could’ve made a big enough town of mini houses, and enough food to feed ten thousand homeless people for a decade!

    • @Digganob590
      @Digganob590 День тому

      @@ThatcherFin Hell yeah. That'd be a government project I could get behind, at least if the alternative is some train hobbyist's wet dream.

  • @Little_tad
    @Little_tad День тому

    Shouldn't they be more worried about their homeless population that they knew was coming?

  • @x0re_01
    @x0re_01 День тому +1

    Any reaction to Brett leaving?

  • @Krys-tlc1981
    @Krys-tlc1981 День тому +3

    Scott Weiner, 😂 im sorry, but id hate to have that last name. 🌭

  • @davedobson5869
    @davedobson5869 День тому

    You stated that little bit was only 20% of the over all length and it will cost $100 billion to complete that section so it will cost over half a trillion dollars to complete the entire length? Where is this money suppose to come from?

  • @rode-o5206
    @rode-o5206 День тому

    Is the BART the same line? I suppose so.

  • @Emily-me
    @Emily-me 4 години тому

    We forgetting that Musk has a company that bores holes in the ground for different things, among them, subway systems.

  • @CapPTanMcKringleBerries
    @CapPTanMcKringleBerries День тому

    In the first 30 seconds all I hear is heaven for Middle Eastern people

  • @tomster7574
    @tomster7574 22 години тому

    not spent, extorted/embezzled.

  • @stuartkorte1642
    @stuartkorte1642 День тому

    So glad Florida didn’t go down the very costly rail that’s runs at 0 mph.

    • @MrStark-up6fi
      @MrStark-up6fi День тому

      Florida does have a cool 125mph train however

  • @mmast7554
    @mmast7554 2 дні тому

    1/2 billion per mile gov over spending included how be it probably under estimated on the latter

  • @jaymichael91
    @jaymichael91 День тому

    There are too many earthquakes.

  • @CoCreatewithMe2
    @CoCreatewithMe2 День тому +4

    High speed? Get Japanese and Chinese here to build it.

    • @night6724
      @night6724 День тому

      Japanese engineers were brought to give advice but of course their advice could not be implemented under California rules and regulations

  • @marilynpayne4049
    @marilynpayne4049 2 дні тому +12

    High speed rail is a total boondoggle!

    • @markbollinger1343
      @markbollinger1343 День тому

      Only in the US.

    • @johnbrown4568
      @johnbrown4568 День тому

      @@markbollinger1343 Yes indeed...because we are the USA...not collectivist minded and "de-balled" Europeans.

    • @CellBlok69wLamp
      @CellBlok69wLamp День тому

      @@markbollinger1343 NO, it is. You're just cucked by rail

    • @markbollinger1343
      @markbollinger1343 День тому

      @@johnbrown4568 rail is a good transit option and we should figure it out. However we need better local transit too. Do you really like sitting in traffic all the time to go to work, the store, church? I’d much rather hope on a bus or train and relax.
      It works well in most developed countries. But then again so does building walkable cities.

    • @cordasuenaviolin604
      @cordasuenaviolin604 День тому

      ​@@johnbrown4568As someone who lives in Europe where we have high-speed rail, it's good, but you need it to run from one city centre to another.

  • @diomedesbc
    @diomedesbc День тому

    Sounds like the train in my city

  • @coolroy4300
    @coolroy4300 День тому +2

    Bicycles, windmills and trains .
    Whats next the donkey and the stagecoach?😂

  • @jayerutter107
    @jayerutter107 День тому

    Weeeeeneeeer😂😂😂😂😂

  • @chasetran8592
    @chasetran8592 День тому

    Lol killing off the competition, if the side of competition suck. They deserve to be faded

  • @Alexandru_Iulian
    @Alexandru_Iulian День тому

    Just leave DW at this point. You lost 2 of your best, take Matt and leave...

  • @chrisferrell1588
    @chrisferrell1588 2 дні тому +4

    just another way politicians line they're pockets.....

  • @jonathanshjrne3690
    @jonathanshjrne3690 День тому

    Seldom have I seen a man more aptly named. I only wish his middle name was "The"...

  • @ThinkfreeorDie
    @ThinkfreeorDie День тому +5

    It doesn't even need to be Elon, it just needs to be someone semi-competent.

  • @restonthewind
    @restonthewind День тому

    You start with an irrelevant, ad hominem attack. Moving on.

  • @rodneydavenport4646
    @rodneydavenport4646 2 дні тому +1

    Michael, this isn’t even close to funny.k

  • @Nancy-uc2tu
    @Nancy-uc2tu День тому

    A whining liberal. How cliche.

  • @WadeWeigle
    @WadeWeigle День тому

    Sounds like a way to launder some money to me. Just saying.

  • @mr.honeybee7661
    @mr.honeybee7661 День тому

    Lol

  • @KrystianFractal
    @KrystianFractal 2 дні тому +1

    California seems like a fun place. They should start making movies there. Most California things today are: apple phone and jj oil😅

  • @miker1414
    @miker1414 2 дні тому +1

    I thought I voted for Trump/Vance, not Vivek/Musk. I dont even know where Vance is at this point.
    All I hear is that they want to cut regulations (which is great) but it seems like it's everything that they want to cut helps Musk's businesses... Just maybe there's a conflict of interest there? Also Musk is getting billions of our tax dollars, maybe that needs to stop immediately, and he can use his own money to fund his projects...

    • @chrisjinks3075
      @chrisjinks3075 День тому +2

      How is cutting government waste, which amounts to TRILLIONS annually, a bad thing? If private businesses benefit, isn't that a good thing?

    • @miker1414
      @miker1414 День тому +1

      @@chrisjinks3075 its a great thing but they aren't talking about anything of actual substance. No Military cuts.. No Entitlement cuts. They are making big noise over small changes . I'm all for getting rid of waste but why punt on the major stuff.

  • @mfburk2010
    @mfburk2010 День тому

    Hyperloop was a technology worth developing.

    • @STho205
      @STho205 День тому

      Well that was potentially a worse boondoggle than wishing for HSR in North America where no sufficient rail or ROW currently exists.
      The Boring project turned out to be silly at best. The Vegas conv center connector was at best a bad carnival ride

  • @romulusmars3766
    @romulusmars3766 День тому

    Penny is a killer, though, so there was a killer on that train.

  • @theboss4466
    @theboss4466 День тому

    WIIIIIIENER😂

  • @thebpoguy9880
    @thebpoguy9880 День тому

    Miss. Lily Phillips would like to come on to your show.. she too wants to be saved