The news regarding the project is, as usual, dismal. Not a single train has run, with train testing still six to seven years away, amid seemingly never-ending delays. Instead, the project is moving at the speed of the museum piece it sometimes appears destined to be. The California High Speed Rail, its formal name, was a hobby-ego project for former governor Jerry Brown that was supposed to move passengers between Los Angeles and San Francisco at 220 mph by 2020. But it’s still out there, sucking up time and money, and as empty as it ever was. California’s bullet train has become a nearly forgotten source of trouble, eclipsed in the public eye by Covid-19, a gubernatorial recall, and out-migration from the Golden State.
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