If there is potential, let some corporations fund it.
Now, it is becoming another tax albatross around California taxpayers like all of the so called wonderful wind farms paid for in some way by us.
Too much of what I call the NFL concept of getting a city/county to pay for a multi billion $ stadium for fans and the owners while $crewing the local taxpayers.
AMtrac is another hustle.
yup - the example is freight rail
In the 1970s US freight rail was dying, hobbled by a layers of legacy gov. Deregulation resulted in a boom in US freight rail which now is the most efficient in the world & and has a 50% market share.
Eliminate subsidies and deregulate -