You may be “ mot joking”, but are you serious?!?!
Sentient beings don’t care about how many state borders they cross in a day.
Which, I guess raises the question: Do you?
. . . appears to have no plausible way of living up to its goal of getting riders across the state in three hours or less.
That is what I took to be (loosely) from "border to border,"which north to south would be. say, from the Bay area to San Dickey. On another article a couple of days ago, a proposal for dividing California into three states was made. So my crazy mind said. Hmmm. Doing that could allow one to go from border to border in one of those states, east to west or north to south, by definition, in a day.
You may be “ mot joking”, but are you serious?!?!
A mistype that got past my role as a copy-reader, which I just didn't exert the effort to correct, counting on your patience and tolerance. But, well, kind of "not joking" if that is a reasonable definition.
When I lived in Buffalo, I surely was not going to drive or take the train for business meetings in New York City, let alone to others in Wilmington, DE (both about 400 miles). Though either could be done in a day, a much more reasonable solution was to fly. In a densely populated island such as Japan, the Shinkasen connecting Niikata and Tokyo is about 200 miles and takes about 2 hours, with 6 stops along the route. I think it followed an already-established "slow" route that did not require a total upset of the intervening populace and real estate, as the California plan does. For the Shinkasen, city workers can travel to and from work pretty quickly, daily. Taking the plane from Buffalo to Philadelphia got one back to family for later supper. I've done both. But four hours between SR and LA? well, that just ruins a day. Taking a flight back and forth has already been settled without government interference. Done that, too.
No, changing the borders doesn't shorten the trip, only how it is described.
(I started to answer you a little after noon. Sorry --)