[boop]

Actually now that I looked at the map, the “high speed rail” is even STUPIDER. Amtrak already goes between SF and SD. And when it gets to the big cities it’s NOT going to be moving very fast at all. Will it run on special second tracks, along the ones that already exist in those big cities? And how many people want to go to Fresno or Bakersfield really “fast”. i.e. 80 mph? Not like they’re going to go 300mph through those small towns along the way under any circumstances.

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If only there were some other way, besides a bazillion-dollar train ... some EXISTING, PROVEN way, a POPULAR way, of going 80 miles per hour between Fresno and Bakersfield. You could leave whenever you wanted, go alone or with a group for the same cost, and even stop for a bite along the way.

Yeah, probably just the stuff of some faraway future world, right?