Totally agree. We have heard this puff piece from our state politicians for years. They have a small section completed but it will be years and $105 billion to complete it from San Francisco to Los Angeles. https://www.constructiondive.com/news/california-high-speed-rail-costs-rise-to-105-billion/618877/

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The cost keeps rising:

California High Speed Rail Funding

The 2022 business plan estimates that the full, 500-mile high-speed system between Los Angeles and San Francisco will cost as much as $105 billion, up from $100 billion two years ago. In 2008, when voters approved a bond to help build the railroad, the authority estimated that the system would cost $33 billion.

The rail system is funded, theoretically, by the state's Cap and Trade program-violations for exceeding government mandated emissions.