Brown has to know that this high speed rail for California will NEVER be built. The projected $95 billion is grossly understated. However, even at $95 billion it would be a colossal looser. Our freeways are falling apart for lack of maintenance, and this jerk is fantasizing about a several hundred miles high speed rail line.
Last weekend on the Interstate 10 freeway through the main pass into the Coachella Valley (Palm Springs and other resort cities), his Cal Trans road workers had three of the four westbound freeway lanes closed for nearly 24 hours for roadway concrete repairs. The backup ran for 25 miles with hundreds of thousands of completely stopped cars and trucks with no alternative roadway to use. Drivers were urinating and defecating on the side of the roadway as it was taking 4 hours to move a handful of miles. And this is the leader who wants to build a high speed rail line while his constituents are being forced to pee and poop by the roadside in full view of hundreds.
I drove down to the Bay Area back in late 2010, and couldn't believe the condition of I-80. I had to get out of the right lane because it was beating me and my car up - I've been on dirt roads that were better.