There is no problem. If you have all day, you’re going from SF to LA no problem in your car. You need a car when you get there anyway. And for not much money you can fly there in an hour. THERE IS NO PROBLEM.
The train, if it were completed, would mean that anywhere in LA / OC you’d have a two hour ride to Burbank to get the train. And once you arrive after a low speed ride most of the time with a few short bursts of speed, you will be somewhere outside the cities in the Bay Area and will need transportation into the city.
It’s 100% a joke for a state where middle class people don’t have enough for food, medicine, or gas.
Yes, that is my point, precisely. And the “solution” is insanely expensive. I’m sure it could be spent much more effectlively, but nobody really cares about repairing a thousand little bridges named for a dead cops dog because it’s not polotically expedient.