They’re (we’re?) stuck, all right. They haven’t laid an inch of track yet but they’ve spent billions. They don’t have the land needed for the full distance. Then there’s the problem of building tunnels through miles of earthquake faults. That doesn’t even come close to the problem of finding passengers once the do build it. I don’t think they will finish it in the next ten years. Just think, the railroad across the continent was built in less time than they have spent just talking about California’s so called high speed railway.
And liberals say that Trump doesn’t understand topography... Meanwhile, we have resounding empirical evidence that the border wall can be built.
Have they even decided on a contractor at this point, and has a contractor agreed to take up the offer from a government which would probably never pay them?