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(DC ENQUIRER) – On Sunday, the New York Times published a lengthy piece documenting the long and arduous task of constructing a bullet train running from Los Angeles to San Francisco which became so politically burdensome that the company charged with constructing it fled to North Africa instead of staying in California.
“Now, as the nation embarks on a historic, $1 trillion infrastructure building spree, the tortured effort to build the country’s first high-speed rail system is a case study in how ambitious public works projects can become perilously encumbered by political compromise, unrealistic cost estimates, flawed engineering and a determination to persist on projects that have become, like the crippled financial institutions of 2008, too big to fail,” the New York Times began their piece.
“Political compromises, the records show, produced difficult and costly routes through the state’s farm belt. They routed the train across a geologically complex mountain pass in the Bay Area,” the piece continued. “And they dictated that construction would begin in the center of the state, in the agricultural heartland, not at either of the urban ends where tens of millions of potential riders live.”