America's most expensive bridge . . . doesn't actually go anywhere. (Spoiler alert – it's in California)

Photo above - Gomez Adams plays with toy trains in his basement. However, he paid for them himself, not taxpayers.

When I clicked on this NY Post article (link below) about the bridge to nowhere, I assumed it was going to (eventually) be part of the high-speed rail linking Los Angeles (the homeless paradise) with Las Vegas (the problem gamblers paradise). THAT rail project was announced earlier this year.

It's worse than that. The bridge to nowhere is for a rail line connecting San Francisco to Los Angeles. One without a single mile of track yet. Wait, it gets worse.

The bridge was started 9 years year ago. NINE YEARS!! And not a single mile of track. Wait it gets worse.

The bridge cost $11 Billion (with a B). That may not seem excessive in today's inflationary times. Wait, it gets worse.

The bridge is only 1,600 feet long. That works out to . . . (ka-ching) approximate $7 million A FOOT. For a bridge to nowhere, connecting nothing at all.

At this point, inquiring minds will certainly ask . . . WHICH railroad track will be completed first? SF to LA, where nothing has been built (except the bridge) for a decade? Or the newly announced Blackjack Express? (I made that name up. The media hasn't given it one yet).

Shouldn't there be a law that you can't buy a SECOND model train set, if you haven't even unboxed and used the first one yet? I don't care how much California's politicians and union workers are applauding each time ground is broken for a new railroad. If you're not even going to set up and play with these toys, you shouldn't be allowed to buy more, and mug for the camera at the groundbreaking ceremony.

By some accounts, 1.2 million residents left California over the past year or two. They left by car. The U-Haul rental company says they've had to raise prices, to cover the cost of hiring people to bring the empty trucks and trailers brought back to California, because virtually nobody is renting them to come to the state. It's too bad none of the trains – which will cost billions and billions – are actually in service. People could have left quicker (bullet trains travel at 125 mph) and without renting a U-Haul.

I'm just sayin' . . .

~California mocked over $11 billion high-speed rail bridge to nowhere that took 9 years to build (msn.com)~