Wow. We can all travel to the industrial, technology, and tourist powerhouses of Merced to Bakersfield in record time in the comfort of a bullet train. All I have to do is pack up the car, Drive to the station, pay the parking fee to park near the train station, unload my luggage, load up the train, get to my destination, then unpack the train, go to the rental care counter, rent a car, load up the rental car, do my business, then drive back and do the whole process again. What’s not to love.
Well yeah, that and it’s also just a 2 1/2 hour drive. The money would have been much better spent on 99, the driving route from Bakersfield to Merced, which is in horrible condition. They could have turned it into a nice freeway and had money left over.