http://www.californiadroughtupdate.org/pdf/20190301-High-Speed-Rail-Do-It-Right.pdf?_t=1551658490
California’s High-Speed Rail Project Should be Shut Down
With California’s high-speed rail project years behind schedule, tens of billions over budget, and plagued by mismanagement, newly inaugurated governor Gavin Newsom in his State of the State address on February 12, 2019, declared that the project as now planned must come to an end. Virtually canceling the project, he announced that instead of the original route from Sacramento to San Diego, which had already been scaled-back to be only Los Angeles to San Francisco, all that is going to be built now is the 170 mile section between two Central Valley cities of Bakersfield and Merced. That he is even holding on to that is nothing but a pathetic attempt to avoid the truth that the project is untenable financially, operationally, and politically.
State Senator Jim Nelsen (R-Gerber) ridiculed Newsom’s plan: “We’re going to put more billions into a train in a place where there is no ridership and no freight will be hauled.”
