Critics Vindicated After Warning California s High Speed-Rail Wouldn t Work

The infamous, $113-billion-and-counting California high-speed rail line between San Francisco and Los Angeles, which was supposed to be completed by 2020 for a cost of $33 billion yet has only begun tinkering on a 171-mile stretch in the Central Valley, is not really “an existing project,” says former California High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) Chair Quentin Kopp. “It is a loser.”

Added ex-chair Michael Tennenbaum: “I don’t know how they can build it now.” And California State Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon (D Lakewood): “There is nothing but problems on the project.”

All these quotes come from a much-discussed article in Sunday’s New York Times detailing the grossly politicized decision making that has plagued the proposed bullet train ever since California voters foolishly approved an initial $9.95 billion bond measure to jumpstart it in November 2008.

via reason.com

Somehow the California Choo-choo reminds me of this classic scene from a movie (which has nothing to do with trains). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvH6PT7I_dI
All those cheering folks are the consultants, lawyers, planners, etc., etc.