Flutterby™! : California High Speed Rail in trouble

We like to say that the US is a developing nation. That some day we'll have real government services, like developed nations do. Public transit, healthcare, quality of life...

But some days it feels like we've just got too much corruption to overcome.

New cost estimate for high-speed rail puts California bullet train $100 billion in the red. There are all the skyrocketing costs, but

And possibly more worrisome is a cut to the projected future ridership by 25%, owing to the reality that the COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally reduced the use of public transportation and California’s expected population growth has fizzled. An important justification for the bullet train since its inception was an expectation that population growth would necessitate improved passenger rail. The report nonetheless asserts the system would perform comparable to Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor passenger loads.