‘Horrible sequence of mistakes’: How bullet
train contractors botched a bridge project
Los Angeles Times,
by
Ralph Vartabedian
Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter,
8/11/2020 9:19:05 AM
A series of errors by contractors and consultants on the California bullet train venture caused support cables to fail on a massive bridge, triggering an order to stop work that further delayed a project already years behind schedule, the Los Angeles Times has learned.
The bridge is longer than two football fields and is needed to shuttle vehicles over the future bullet train right of way and existing BNSF freight tracks in Madera County.
Authorities have yet to finalize a plan to repair the bridge. Late last year, crews installed temporary steel supports to prevent it from collapsing.
Democrats, what don't they know? Keep voting them in morons. There is no way the rest of the country should bail them out. They voted for it, we didn't. I don't want the rest of the country to bail Connecticut out either. I didn't vote for the morally bankrupt people in power, but the majority of the people in Connecticut did. I'd sell out and leave, but my children and grandchildren are here, so here I stay.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 8/11/2020 9:29:57 AM (No. 506112)
Mistakes? Bwahahahahahaha!!! These are not mistakes. It is the way of the kleptocrat leftists and their cronies.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 8/11/2020 9:40:37 AM (No. 506122)
Very symbolic for the whole project.
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Hired the same contractor as the Boston Big Dig? Unions involved? Mafia selling cheap concrete and Chinesium metal?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
LanceLink1 8/11/2020 10:26:59 AM (No. 506168)
California needs high speed rail between Merced and Bakersfield? How many passengers a day do they need to start covering their costs? Answer? Every resident of the moron state. You get the gubmint you deserve.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
jimincalif 8/11/2020 10:43:33 AM (No. 506182)
FTA: “It isn’t getting any better,” said an executive at one firm working on the project, who asked not to be identified because he was not authorized to speak to the news media. “It is such a pillage of the taxpayers.”
This statement could be applied to pretty much any government project or program in California. My (soon to be former) state is broken.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
greggojo 8/11/2020 10:43:41 AM (No. 506183)
A poster child for boondoggle: Absurd route (one that no one will utilize). Politician/labor union kickbacks. "Engineers" who believe calculus is racist and who were hired based on how many protected class check boxes their hiring would permit (e.g the pedestrian overpass in Florida that collapsed killing multiple people) (post collapse, the engineering firm that participated in construction mysteriously removed its diversity claim from its website). .
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
MickTurn 8/11/2020 10:45:23 AM (No. 506184)
Totally misses the target. UNIONS and Crooked Politicians are responsible for ALL these failures. The Democrap politicians GIVE the Unions Billions in graft and corruption. The Favor is to return a high percentage of that to the same politicians in 'Campaign Contributions'...I call them BRIBES! The result is that the UNIONS are left to do poor crappy work and cause the project to fail...we've seen this scenario play out over and over and YOU are NOT fooling anyone. No one is ever held accountable for the failures and the fraud, waste and abuse of taxpayers!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
earlybird 8/11/2020 11:01:25 AM (No. 506205)
There was no good reason for this fiasco train from the beginning. The project should be absolutely shut down. No further money expended. It was DOA before the first day’s construction began.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Terry_tr6 8/11/2020 11:02:35 AM (No. 506207)
maybe california needs to outsource oversight to the Taliban. At least that way we can enjoy the responsible parties swinging from the bridge, though the bridge might not be able to support all that weight
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
chiller 8/11/2020 11:15:05 AM (No. 506218)
I've lost track of this project....If I remember correctly, the LA > SF bullet was finally ashcanned....is this a downsized version ? To be completed in some future decade / century. In the middle of and not close to either LA or SF or SAC, of what use is it ? Who pushed it ?
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anyone know what federal monies are being used in this project?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Calico Al 8/11/2020 12:29:28 PM (No. 506297)
Didn't they have any inspectors on the job? If so check his spending habits and see if there was any palm greasing.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 8/11/2020 12:40:53 PM (No. 506319)
Demonrats.....corrupt and incompetent. Hell of a combo.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
bad-hair 8/11/2020 12:41:21 PM (No. 506321)
.Which is what generally happens when you give billions of dollars to politically connected morons,
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
xnewsguy 8/11/2020 1:02:32 PM (No. 506355)
Sounds like a 21st century episode of "Hell on Wheels."
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
cThree 8/11/2020 1:05:18 PM (No. 506361)
Right out of Atlas Shrugged. Involving trains, even.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
lazlototh 8/11/2020 1:07:27 PM (No. 506363)
I get a paywall on this. That the LA Times might actually have an article worth reading is astounding but not nearly astounding enough for me to want them to get even a penny from me. Would love to read this one article so I can leave shaking my head and grumbling about things I'm pretty sure I understand anyway.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
bad-hair 8/11/2020 1:26:40 PM (No. 506384)
Hey Governor. I have a GREAT campaign slogan for you.
CALIFORNIA !!! GOING NOWHERE FAST !!!
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 8/11/2020 1:42:36 PM (No. 506418)
Tear it down! It's successful construction is going to kill a roly poly!
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Strike3 8/11/2020 1:42:57 PM (No. 506419)
People have only been building bridges since the days of Ancient Rome and we allegedly have the best engineering schools in the world. Can't these democrats do anything right? Okay, just throw a few more billion dollars at it and see if you can entice anybody to use the bridge or the train. I know, we can impose a "temporary" toll on it to cover the extra cost.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
learner 8/11/2020 1:49:18 PM (No. 506425)
A couple of RR crossing gates with flashing red lights would have been a lot cheaper or a tunnel.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Strike3 8/11/2020 1:52:56 PM (No. 506427)
#9, there is a highway like that in West Virginia, a Robert Byrd project of course. Four lanes of beautiful pavement that just stops in the middle of the woods. no exit, no warning signs.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
hershey 8/11/2020 2:58:08 PM (No. 506500)
Baawaahahahah...wait until they try to drive a tunnel through the ground around the San Andreas Fault...this is worse than Boston's Big Ditch project...why is it that dumbocraps are so stupid??? Oh wait, it's because they are dumbocraps...
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 8/11/2020 5:00:31 PM (No. 506679)
This is symbolic of dems in general. Everything they do is unnecessary, grossly corrupted with graft, behind schedule, runs costs vastly over an already inflated budget, and in the end doesn't work. I'm surprised they didn't propose it run on unicorn farts.
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