With construction costs ballooning and the timeline years off schedule, California is currently focused on completing high-speed rail between Bakersfield and Merced, a route few were clamoring for, and fewer are likely to ride. “When you have a project like this, and when the budget no longer permits you to finish it the way you wanted to, you start cutting off your arms and legs,” says Lou Thompson, who helped found Amtrak in the 1970s. #train #highspeedtrain #california

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