{"id":247281,"date":"2026-04-01T21:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T21:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/247281\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T21:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T21:05:11","slug":"california-hsr-completes-railhead-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/247281\/","title":{"rendered":"California HSR Completes Railhead Head"},"content":{"rendered":"

The California High Speed Rail Authority cut the ribbon Wednesday on a temporary outdoor \u201cHoney Bucket\u201d toilet south of Wasco at their railhead facility<\/a>. \u201cThis marks a great milestone in the construction of California\u2019s transformational high-speed rail project,\u201d said Governor Gavin Newsom, who attended the event.<\/p>\n

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The toilet, which was to be installed in 1996, was delayed due to multiple lawsuits and an extended environmental review process. A new habitat for a displaced population of rare Central Valley sand newts had to be created outside of Fresno before the endangered species could be transplanted from the site to make room for the toilet.<\/p>\n

In addition, Wasco negotiated a $170 million, 16-lane freeway expansion of the dirt path that once ran past the site. The high-speed rail authority picked up roughly 95 percent of the cost. An almond tree also had to be replaced for an undisclosed amount.<\/p>\n

\"\"Not AI. This is a screen grab from an actual CalHSR animation of the railhead facility<\/a>. Note the blue porta-potties.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t wait to drop a big steaming log in there,\u201d said Newsom. \u201cAm I president yet?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m working on legislation to reduce these burdens so we can get stuff built in a human lifetime,\u201d said State Senator Scott Wiener, before sobbing, taking a long swig of Jack Daniels, and slamming his own head repeatedly into the lectern.<\/p>\n

The high-speed rail authority provided free bowls of extra spicy chilly and cans of Lysol spray at the event. The hope was to battle test the new Honey Bucket.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAmericans would rather waste money on porta-potties for roads than building socialist hippy dippy poopy pots for trains,\u201d said U.S. DOT Secretary Sean Duffy, before accepting a bag of cash from a Chevron rep.<\/p>\n

The preceding was an April Fools\u2019 post based on the publicity the Authority created (at the Governor\u2019s request) around the construction of the \u201crailhead,\u201d a storage yard that really didn\u2019t warrant a press event.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The California High Speed Rail Authority cut the ribbon Wednesday on a temporary outdoor \u201cHoney Bucket\u201d toilet south…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,109921],"class_list":{"0":"post-247281","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-california-headlines","10":"tag-california-news","11":"tag-promoted"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}