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EXCLUSIVE: California has spent $618 million on environmental impact reports for its doomed high-speed rail project. We printed out all 130,000 pages and tried to shoot a .50-caliber bullet through them.
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I'd phrase that as: "California subsidized the employment of otherwise useless environmental activists with more than $1/2 Billion of designed and intended red tape"
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I just took the bullet train from Hangzhou to Beijing. The Chinese started building the line in 2008, same year as CA project, and finished the 800-mile stretch in 2011. Three years for a distance twice as long as LA to SF!
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Look up giant garter snake mating condos (aka berms) for a gas storage facility in Butte County. This is not a joke.
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In the central valley it was environmentally required to modify your curb and gutters to help the salamanders not get stuck in the street so they could climb out. This is how retarded things are.
We also had to immediately stop any work for any bird that laid any eggs, including crows, pigeons, etc. Not endangered animals but all.
Go look what it takes to remove a tree in SF, its a multi year process, even if you are replacing with more.
The list goes on....
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I was stationed at Vandenberg AFB (nearish to Santa Barbara, CA) in early 2010s. I remember the base commander at the time - Colonel Keith Balts - telling a group of us about the absurdity they had to deal with in order to be allowed to make launches. One example was that the base had to pay for studies observing the effect of launch noise on local sea otters. He shared his real thoughts overall, and I appreciated his candor (paraphrased): "All the environmental studies and regulations are a shakedown racket - just excuses for the State of California to take money from the DoD."
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Congratulations! You've discovered the true purpose of the so-called High-Speed Rail Project.
The grift is the point.
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Was at a lib-left social thing earlier this week with a bunch of snap-clapper Brooklyn early-thirty-somethings: high school teachers, masters degree havers, not quite professionals. People who want to ‘make the world a little better.’
Very poignant - you can tell that many of them are disappointed, longing, adrift, and pained. Still, they must be ruthlessly crushed, pushed down even further, their last slivers of hope extinguished.
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The French national railway company pulled out of bidding for the high-speed rail contract in California in 2011.
They said the state was terrible to work in and they preferred somewhere less dysfunctional.
They went to North Africa.
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They don't want anything built or finished or fixed. Much more money in stretching out the process - not in the completion.
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Counting bumblebees one-by-one 😂
California hasn't built its bullet train because the state has required 130,000 pages of environmental reports, making absurd demands like:
• counting bumblebees one by one
• rebuilding woodrat stick huts
• hiring specialized dogs to sniff lizard scat
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"what'd you do at work today?"
"tried to shoot a bullet through 130k pages of environmental reports"
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Brit YIMBY activism: Slick reports on red tape
Yank YIMBY activism: Could we shoot the red tape?
EXCLUSIVE: California has spent $618 million on environmental impact reports for its doomed high-speed rail project. We printed out all 130,000 pages and tried to shoot a .50-caliber bullet through them.
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CHECK THIS OUT 🚨
This is a great visual of the RIDICULOUS spending on Gavin Newsom’s train to nowhere!
It shows exactly why President Trump and I pulled YOUR federal tax dollars from Gavin’s BOONDOGGLE
Hardworking taxpayers deserve RESULTS. You’re not going to believe this ⬇️
EXCLUSIVE: California has spent $618 million on environmental impact reports for its doomed high-speed rail project. We printed out all 130,000 pages and tried to shoot a .50-caliber bullet through them.
Christopher Rufo retweeted
A .50 cal bullet will destroy military equipment yet barely makes a dent in $618 million worth of environmental reports which have stalled progress on California's high-speed train to nowhere.
EXCLUSIVE: California has spent $618 million on environmental impact reports for its doomed high-speed rail project. We printed out all 130,000 pages and tried to shoot a .50-caliber bullet through them.