Claim: California is building a $587 billion high-speed rail link to Hawaii.
Example: [Collected via Twitter, November 2014]
Theres going to be a high speed rail tunnel to Hawaii. #dope
— Mike Leach (@oceanboy2) November 7, 2014
Origins: An article published by the Daily Currant on
According to election officials, Proposition 49 — which would use public money to build a 2,600-mile-long undersea rail tunnel between Honolulu and
The tunnel would be 185 times longer than the longest undersea tunnel in the world, the Seikan Tunnel in Japan. The total cost of the project is estimated at
High-speed rails are currently a topic of interest in California politics, but the majority of the conversation is centered on a
The Daily Currant is a satirical newspaper that aims to "ridicule the timid ignorance which obstructs our progress." The site states in its About section that articles published on the Daily Currant are purely fictional:
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California isn't planning on building a high-speed rail to Hawaii, although notions of bullet trains linking
Last updated: 7 November 2014