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California is taking of heat for celebrating the completion of an high-
speed rail bridge that has cost taxpayers $11 billion and took nine years
to build . and clearly goes nowhere.

Critics . including Tesla founder Elon Musk and Dogecoin creator Billy
Markus . are ripping the California High Speed Rail Authority after it
boasted about last year.s completion of a .Fresno River Viaduct,. a mere
sliver of the state.s long-delayed, bullet-train project attempting to
link San Francisco to Los Angeles

.This is the most remarkable human achievement ever,. joked Markus, the
creator of the jokey cryptocurrency, on X Friday.

.1600 feet of high speed rail after 9 years and 11 billion dollars it
takes about 5 minutes to walk 1600 feet so a high speed rail for that is a
really big deal,. added Markus, who also goes by .Shibetoshi Nakamoto..

.California is so competent..

Musk also chimed in, posting a sad, crying emoji to express his sentiments
about the boondoggle of a project that is reportedly in danger of being
scrapped.

That.s despite $11 billion in taxpayer dollars that have already being
sunk into the Los Angeles-to-San Francisco high speed rail project.

That figure includes both the bridge and other work on the first phase of
the high-speed route . which runs from Bakersfield north of Los Angeles to
Merced, which is about 80 miles from the Bay Area.

Critics were responding to an earlier post by the rail authority,  touting
that the Fresno River Viaduct in Madera County is one of the .first
completed high-speed rail structures..

.At nearly 1,600 feet long, high-speed trains will travel over the
riverbed and will run parallel with the BNSF Railroad,. the authority said
on X.

Although reported estimates to complete the rail line will cost taxpayers
about $100 billion, Markus fired back, quipping: .wow so impressive, can.t
wait until year 2400 for this to finish for 700 quadrillion dollars..

Venture Capitalist Patrick Blumenthal insinuated the authority should pump
the brakes on praising itself, posting a breakdown of the lack of progress
the rail-line project has made.

.0.3 miles completed. After 15 years. After $11.2 BILLION. $36.96 billion
per mile,. he wrote on X.

https://nypost.com/2024/05/04/us-news/califor...
rail-bridge-to-nowhere-that-took-9-years-to-build/


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