[20 years too late]

I’ll bet the train never gets built. The $10 billion will be consumed by planners, envirnomental studies and lawyers.
The final verdict: there are too many endangered spiecies in the way.

[Oldexpat]

The State is broke, the cities are broke and they keep on spending like they were run by the Public Employees Union.
We need to go Galt on them. Pay cash for services, stop other spending, keep our old cars, buy out of state etc.
Stop feeding the dragon.

[Thermalseeker]

I’ll bet the train never gets built.

Let us hope that it doesn't! There isn't a passenger carrying train anywhere in this country that survives by it's own merit. Every one of them receive gubmint subsidies, usually for a sizable, if not majority, portion of their operating budget.

Local powers that be in my area have been "studying" a high speed maglev train that would run between Atlanta and Chattanooga, and eventually on to Nashville. I haven't kept track of what they've spent thus far with this "study", but it's in the tens of millions of dollars last time I checked. In reality, what it would provide is a corridor for a pipeline for Atlanta to tap water from the Tennessee River now that they've planned so poorly on fresh water reservoirs after inviting 5 million people to move there.....