A couple of days ago, the Antiplanner noted that cities fail to learn from each other’s experience with rail transit disasters. It turns out that states don’t learn either, as the state of Washington is considering creating a high-speed rail authority and giving it millions of dollars to study a high-speed rail line from Eugene to Vancouver, BC.
Of course, such an authority worked so well in California, where costs have more than doubled, the project has been delayed for years verging on decades, and proponents’ claims that fares would cover operating costs are so unlikely as to be laughable. If it doesn’t work in California, which has the densest urban areas in the United States, how can it possibly make sense in the Pacific Northwest, where populations and densities are much lower?
The article is accompanied by a photo of a Siemens prototype high-speed rail car. My 66-year-old eyes can’t read all of the writing on the side, but if Siemens were honest it would read, “Connecting cities at half the speed and ten times the cost of flying.”
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The proponents of a Washington or Northwest high-speed rail agency are clearly clueless about what has happened in California. But remember, in the same election in which Los Angeles voted to spend $120 billion on light rail, Seattle voted to spend $54 billion on the same long-obsolete technology.
Interestingly, the article saying that the state wants to spend millions on high-speed rail has a link to an article about how a Seattle light-rail line is millions over budget. Apparently, states can’t even learn from the experience of cities within those states.
Tell me about it. They’re thieving from both property taxes and car tabs to pay for this worthless piece of trolley trash. Almost $400 on my tabs for a 2017 Tacoma for what…a 10mph stupid, worthless trolley and 30 years of make work for corrupt contractors who funded the initiative battle? Some of the big names in worthless toy train projects even opened local offices here to feed off this scam for the next couple decades.
Behind every rail fiasco is an FTA official who thought it was a good idea. FTA is the common denominator in failed transit boondoggles.
https://www.constructiondive.com/news/fta-executes-12b-grant-for-seattle-light-rail-extension/545050/
The feds could save the states a lot of $$ and time if they made decisions right up front to announce no federal funds for useless expensive projects.
Then the proponents won’t be able to lie about how it won’t cost anyone $$$ as it will all come from the feds.
If people know up front they have to pay for the projects, at least there will be a chance to stop them.
“They’re thieving from both property taxes and car tabs”
I’ve never been able to figure out why Washington state calls them “tabs” especially when they are “tags” in every other state.
With that kind of logic, then I-5 wouldn’t exist :$
Keep in mind that a major funding mechanism budgeted for CA HSR is to condemn cheap farmland for the ROW and then re-zone it as commercial and sell it off. I’m sure this will stand-up in court…
Maybe if they think looking to Sweden is important they’d see that the 1 hour flight from Stockholm to Gotenburg is a 3hr trip via Sweden’s high speed rail?