HSR is not, necessarily, a “colossal waste”.
Sending billions to California and getting NOTHING except for paid-off RAT bottom feeders is a colossal waste.
China has built 12,000 miles of HSR in the time that California politicians and their pets have consumed all that money. There are parts of the US where HSR would be a good thing to have - California is even one of them.
But before we are spending ten cents on anything in California, they need a functional government.
It is a waste, but there is no rail. Not even one mile of rail. How does this work? They should call it “High Speed Fever Dreams”.
High-speed rail (HSR) has been proposed between Dallas and Houston. I live 65 miles south of Dallas, and the drive up there typically takes about 90 minutes. The estimated travel time by HSR from Dallas to Houston is also 90 minutes. If the time required to get to the train station and get underway is anything like what it is with air travel, that could easily add another two hours.
I can typically drive from my home to Houston in about three hours—and I’d have my own transportation once I get there.
Somehow the USA was able to build the worlds first, largest and best national rail system 150 years ago.
How did they do it? There was zero government involvement, besides right-of-way permitting.
Since when did rail transport become the sole domain of the Left?