{"id":486,"date":"2022-05-08T22:52:05","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T05:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/?p=486"},"modified":"2022-05-08T22:59:42","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T05:59:42","slug":"is-newsoms-high-speed-rail-a-boondoggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/?p=486","title":{"rendered":"Is Newsom&#8217;s high-speed rail a boondoggle?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One has always suspected that this project, if completed, would only be affordable to the wealthy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So why are taxpayers funding it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We need real rail service, affordable rail service. There is a lot to be said about being on a slow moving train, such as scenery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I was on the Shinkansen, scenery whizzed by me&#8230;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe project is not proceeding according to a robust plan, which results in waste and other inefficiencies,\u201d said Bent Flyvbjerg, a business expert in mega projects at the University of Oxford\u2019s Sa\u00efd Business School and IT University of Copenhagen. \u201cGiven the political divisions, the cost growth, the schedule delays and the lack of a sound future revenue source, this project is going to the graveyard of famous boondoggles.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more<a href=\"https:\/\/timesofsandiego.com\/politics\/2022\/05\/08\/standoff-between-governor-legislators-imperils-california-bullet-train-project\/\"> in the <em>San Diego Times<\/em><\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/lim_train3_wide-57732fc7a3d00ac857a59271df3c0c22f715eea0-s800-c85.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"448\" src=\"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/lim_train3_wide-57732fc7a3d00ac857a59271df3c0c22f715eea0-s800-c85.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-490\" srcset=\"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/lim_train3_wide-57732fc7a3d00ac857a59271df3c0c22f715eea0-s800-c85.webp 800w, http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/lim_train3_wide-57732fc7a3d00ac857a59271df3c0c22f715eea0-s800-c85-300x168.webp 300w, http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/lim_train3_wide-57732fc7a3d00ac857a59271df3c0c22f715eea0-s800-c85-768x430.webp 768w, http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/lim_train3_wide-57732fc7a3d00ac857a59271df3c0c22f715eea0-s800-c85-624x349.webp 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Chinese high-speed rail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One has always suspected that this project, if completed, would only be affordable to the wealthy. So why are taxpayers funding it? We need real rail service, affordable rail service. There is a lot to be said about being on a slow moving train, such as scenery. When I was on the Shinkansen, scenery whizzed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[151,149,150],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-boondoggle","tag-high-speed-rail","tag-waste"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions\/491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}