Yeah. I once had a really bad date with a Californian back when I lived in the Midwest where she used that as an example of why trains are a bad investment. Like, there are a lot of issues with California’s high speed rail project, and so many of them are deeply tied to California. And that’s a large part of why I think the west coast high speed rail should come after the new york-chicago despite being a west coaster now.

Large infrastructure projects can’t be sold on the “they say we may be able to do it for as little as $x” they need to be sold on the “we’d like to do a feasibility study for $y” then sell it on the worst case scenario. And then you use your power of eminent domain where needed. But most importantly you have to actually commit to it.

But yeah, I don’t want a California high speed rail type project, I want feasibility studies and accurate projections until we can get what china has done