Speaker 1: In a random acted journalism, the Los Angeles Times looked
Speaker 1: into the multibillion dollar high speed bullet train that is
Speaker 1: supposed to fight global warming if it ever gets built
Speaker 1: and if anybody bothers to ride the thing. The high
Speaker 1: speed train is years behind the schedule. Just since two
Speaker 1: thousand eighteen, the cost has jumped from sixty four billion
Speaker 1: dollars to seventy seven billion dollars. More delays and cost
Speaker 1: overruns are cumming. It's not even factoring in the coronavirus
Speaker 1: to it. Among the problems the l A. Times reports
Speaker 1: is the operating culture at the building services consultancy for
Speaker 1: the train, a global company called WSP now Allegedly, employees
Speaker 1: who tell the truth about problems with the California train
Speaker 1: project are told to shut up and tow the companyline.
Speaker 1: If they don't, they faced the coronavirus. A top executive
Speaker 1: brought into work on the project says the people in
Speaker 1: charge have no technical background. They never disclosed the real costs,
Speaker 1: so they don't tell the real truth. There's just a
Speaker 1: bunch of politicians, and this expert says, the best thing
Speaker 1: that can be done with California's high speed train is
Speaker 1: to cancel all the contracts and start over now. For
Speaker 1: years I've told you this, high speed trains are trained
Speaker 1: in nowhere. Never was a good idea, and it will
Speaker 1: never be a good idea. The smartest thing to do
Speaker 1: after canceling all the contracts would be to scrub the
Speaker 1: whole project and blame it on the coronavirus.