Recent newspaper articles indicate the high-speed rail project from Las Vegas to Los Angeles is already in trouble. The company behind it is financially struggling. The estimated costs are skyrocketing.
Spending taxpayer money on this boondoggle is outrageous. For the same cost, I would bet they could widen the freeway between here and Los Angeles and make it three or four lanes in each direction. This would be a much more productive use of taxpayer money. The highway would carry all manner of people, cargo and other means of commerce. Whereas the train can carry only passengers.
I remember when our family moved from Los Angeles to Las Vegas in 1969. The freeway at that point was as it is today. It hasn’t been expanded or widened since. Talk about mismanagement and misplaced priorities. The populations of both areas have skyrocketed, yet nothing has been done to improve the main thoroughfare between these two metropolitan areas. It really should be a no-brainer. Obviously something else is in play here. The taxpayers deserve better.
