- California’s High-Speed Rail is little more than a skeleton of concrete supports, with no track, no trains and, therefore, no service.
- HSR’s new business plan pegs the cost of linking San Francisco to the Los Angeles area by 2040 at $126 billion.
- The project was a mess when Newsom became governor; it will be a mess for his successor and it will probably be a mess when the next governor departs.
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Construction of the 1,911-mile transcontinental railroad connecting California with the eastern half of the United States began in 1863, while the nation was engaged in a bloody civil war, and was completed six years later when its two legs were joined at Promontory Summit in Utah.
By Dan Walters…