Since my account is somewhat anonymous I’m going to disclose where some of the California high-speed rail money gets wasted.
— No Safe Words (@Cyber_Trailer) March 19, 2026
99% of you don’t realize where giant chunks of the money is disappearing to.
The California high-speed rail authority, literally owns thousands of… pic.twitter.com/8W9OCB8N7K
It’s mindboggling how slow and wasteful this is. ~$15 billion just to connect a line of some small cities in the southern Central Valley around Fresno from Merced to Bakersfield and it won’t complete before 2030 (current claimed completion range is 2030-2033). This is by far the easiest part with the overall route from LA to San Francisco (“Phase One”) likely to cost north of $100 billion, assuming they ever find this much money to fund it.
At this point, I think that Sturgeon’s Law needs a corollary or two–
“90% of government services are crap.”
Except,where it’s “90% of social services are fraud.”