“Easy” isn’t the project. The project is to connect the two major population centers. Nobody cares about Merced to Bakersfield. And expensive? Building a hundre

“Easy” isn’t the project. The project is to connect the two major population centers. Nobody cares about Merced to Bakersfield. And expensive? Building a hundred miles of line that nobody cares about is more expensive than building a train people would actually use. Why would I spend 4 hours riding to LA via Bakersfield when I can spend 45 min on an airplane. I live 12 minutes from the San Jose Airport. Facilitating air shuttles wouldn’t require billions of dollars and I wouldn’t have to waste time transiting the Central Valley for no good reason other than politics.