I’ve written many times about the California High Speed Rail plan to build a bullet train connecting San Francisco and Los Angeles. That plan has been a self-made disaster from the start. It has made some slow progress over the years but the budget is now many times what it was when it was announced and there is no plan for how to pay for it. California is now facing a budget deficit instead of a surplus so the state’s ability to fund it seems more in doubt than ever.
Despite all of this, another plan to construct a bullet train in California kicked off last week and this one seems like it’s off to a much better start. The plan is to build a train that will run at nearly 200mph between a city east of Los Angeles and Las Vegas, Nevada. Groundbreaking happened last week and the plan calls for completion of the project by 2028, in time for the summer Olympics in LA.
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