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High-speed rail in California has become synonymous with failure, a waste, a racket, a punchline.
So why shovel $3.5 billion more into the project, as the state’s High-Speed Rail Authority did this week?
Short answer: to prop up Gavin Newsom’s presidential dream.
If the governor wanted to do right by California residents, he’d simply abandon the long-stalled project, absorb the sunk cost and move on.
But that would mean admitting the obvious: He’s led the state down a dead end.
Voters in 2008 were promised a train that would whisk them between LA and San Francisco in under three hours, for $33 billion.
Eighteen years later, not a single inch of track has been laid and the project’s estimated cost is $231 billion and growing.
That’s a bad look for a two-term governor who aspires to the Oval Office.
So Newsom installed Steve Kawa, a crony, as head of the rail authority. And this week, they pushed through a scheme to plan more, spend more, and perhaps put down a few sticks of track before the “not an inch” campaign ads are written for the 2028 presidential election cycle.
Source: California Post – Breaking California News, Photos & Videos
