It sounds like something I'd write but I don't recall. It's true enough and a prime reason why the lowest bid should NEVER be accepted. Unrealistically low bids are cancer for any major project and should be tossed if they don't reflect reality. Unless the consequences of a major underbid are the contractor literally going out of business you can rest assured they are making it up.
From the client side scope creep and change orders also wreak havoc with budgets and there is so little concern about cost containment. We probably shouldn't be doing anything that isn't design-build with super rigid cost controls.
Globally, developed countries are having big population shortages, and immigration is the only thing that is driving growth for almost all the developed countries. Korea, Germany, US. Hell, even China is facing a massive population decline soon.
Perhaps we should try some logical budgetting instead of making things like social security that are (essentially) a pyramid scheme - that is, dependent upon an increasing population boom in order to fund for the top.
I honestly have no idea what you're ranting about.
He's just letting you know that he is unable to answer your question at the present time.
And airlines aren't heavily subsidized?How could I answer a question about what ticket prices would be for a train that is not yet built and probably never will be? If the experience of the Acela “high-speed” train in the Northeast Corridor is any indication the train tickets will likely be more expensive than plane flights. And that’s before taking into account that they have huge federal government subsidies to the train. The one area where train sometimes comes out ahead is in transit time because New Yorkers have to travel so far to get to JFK airport whereas the train station is downtown. Thinking the train will be cheaper is hugely motivated thinking.
How could I answer a question about what ticket prices would be for a train that is not yet built and probably never will be? If the experience of the Acela “high-speed” train in the Northeast Corridor is any indication the train tickets will likely be more expensive than plane flights. And that’s before taking into account that they have huge federal government subsidies to the train. The one area where train sometimes comes out ahead is in transit time because New Yorkers have to travel so far to get to JFK airport whereas the train station is downtown. Thinking the train will be cheaper is hugely motivated thinking.
Firstly the NEC is profitable, very much so. What really loses money are the long distance routes across the country. Conservatives love to bash these but will never cut them because even if it sounds good lots of GOP reps realize that the services run through their districts and doing so would be immensely unpopular.
The government most certainly subsidizes air travel in a range of ways. Billions in grants to airpots for construction. Immense defense industry contracts prop up aircraft makers like Boeing. Hundreds of millions of dollars in annual direct subsidies to provide service to places that can't support it (Essential Air Service). Etc.
Okay one side has said HSR tickets are likely to be more expensive (or at the very least not cheaper) than plane tickets due to high construction costs the state will presumably want to recoup in addition to simple high operating costs. Your side hasn’t said why HSR tickets would be cheaper (an actual causal reason not “just because”) or that California will simply eat the construction costs and not seek to not run an operating loss going forward.
You're projecting again, collaborator.So the high speed rails promoters and supporters lied about how much it would cost, lied about how long it would take, lied about where it would go, lied about how fast it would travel and have systematically lied about every single facet and fact about this project?
A Billion dollar cut well earned and hopefully lawsuits to get what the Federal government have already paid and jail time for the fraudsters that foisted the project on misinformed California voters.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...unding-california-high-speed-rail/3697609002/
All anyone needed to do was look at the bay bridge to understand how California would make this the most expensive train in the world. The only reason the one small piece of it is being built is so that our politicians don't look like complete fools, and face billions in law suits from vendors that have already spent money gearing up for the project.So the high speed rails promoters and supporters lied about how much it would cost, lied about how long it would take, lied about where it would go, lied about how fast it would travel and have systematically lied about every single facet and fact about this project?
A Billion dollar cut well earned and hopefully lawsuits to get what the Federal government have already paid and jail time for the fraudsters that foisted the project on misinformed California voters.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...unding-california-high-speed-rail/3697609002/
So the high speed rails promoters and supporters lied about how much it would cost, lied about how long it would take, lied about where it would go, lied about how fast it would travel and have systematically lied about every single facet and fact about this project?
A Billion dollar cut well earned and hopefully lawsuits to get what the Federal government have already paid and jail time for the fraudsters that foisted the project on misinformed California voters.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...unding-california-high-speed-rail/3697609002/
All anyone needed to do was look at the bay bridge to understand how California would make this the most expensive train in the world. The only reason the one small piece of it is being built is so that our politicians don't look like complete fools, and face billions in law suits from vendors that have already spent money gearing up for the project.
Trump’s lies have no bearing on the gross incompetence in managing this project. When Trump is out office or behind bars, there still won’t be a high speed train as promised and within budget.It's not like they told 10,000 lies in two years, is it?
Trump’s lies have no bearing on the gross incompetence in managing this project. When Trump is out office or behind bars, there still won’t be a high speed train as promised and within budget.
Trump’s lies have no bearing on the gross incompetence in managing this project. When Trump is out office or behind bars, there still won’t be a high speed train as promised and within budget.
The CA train to nowhere is the left’s version of Trump’s wall. Expensive, pointless, and only a small portion will ever get built.
You're clairvoyant, too?
It's already a done deal. Our mighty railway that will showcase California's forward thinking and technical savvy will be less that two hundred miles long, spanning the gap from nowhere to nowhere in speed and comfort.You're clairvoyant, too?
I expect it would be fairly easy to determine who is lying and who is telling the truth as it relates to California meeting the project requirements to secure federal funding.Trumpster alleged that that CA authorities lied about the project. I was just trying to put that in perspective.
Not even close. They have already blown the budget on moving utility's out of the way, so everything appears to be right on track for a clusterfuck of biblical proportions.They haven't even laid any rail yet, have they?
Not even close. They have already blown the budget on moving utility's out of the way, so everything appears to be right on track for a clusterfuck of biblical proportions.