A money-stealing scam from from the start!----- NYT: California's High Speed Rail Saga Is a Complete Debacle That May Never End

NYT: California's High Speed Rail Saga Is a Complete Debacle That May Never End

"This isn't exactly breaking news, as California's ludicrous money pit known as a "high speed rail" project has been a rolling disaster for years.
But it's still something to see it all written down so bluntly in the pages of a liberal newspaper...A complete, failing mess:(From NYT)

The design for the nation’s most ambitious infrastructure project was never based on the easiest or most direct route. Instead, the train’s path out of Los Angeles was diverted across a second mountain range to the rapidly growing suburbs of the Mojave Desert — a route whose most salient advantage appeared to be that it ran through the district of a powerful Los Angeles county supervisor....

 Meanwhile, costs have continued to escalate...at the current spending rate of $1.8 million a day, according to projections widely used by engineers and project managers, the train could not be completed in this century.

Astonishing. 

• This boondoggle was supposed to have been completed two years ago at a cost of $33 billion. 
• It's nowhere close to finished, with no end in sight, and the price tag has nearly quadrupled. 
•  It's so bad questions are swirling about "whether the project can ever be finished." ...

Ever...