It is well past time to pull the plug on California’s high-speed rail project. A US Senate Transportation Committee revealed that the cost is now projected to be $231 billion — seven times the original estimate.
The project is already more than a decade behind schedule, and Gavin Newsom has already said it would not connect LA and San Francisco, as envisioned.
It is well past time to pull the plug on California’s high-speed rail project. Getty Images If California wants “green” alternatives to existing road, air, and rail, there are other, more workable ideas.
Elon Musk said recently that his Boring Company could “build a Hyperloop tunnel” — a new propulsion system operating on the same principle as pneumatic tubes — “from downtown SF to downtown LA for
