As Willie Green would say, the train to nowhere is a symbol of the mess California is in.
It wants to build a train no one wants when the state has far more critical priorities waiting to be addressed.
Its the White Elephant of Golden State liberalism run amok.
The State of Indiana will soon have something similar in a couple of core counties around Indianapolis.
It won't be as grand; just local bus service; but WILL require non-riders (taxpayers) to subsidize it.
I guess they didn't learn the lesson from the WhiteWater Canal so many years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitewater_Canal