Are you predicting that people will actually ride this train in any significant numbers and create real economic activity? If not, it's a distinction without a

Are you predicting that people will actually ride this train in any significant numbers and create real economic activity? If not, it's a distinction without a difference. I grew up in the central valley. Nice place in many ways, but all that matters for this discussion is whether that route is useful. And I highly doubt it is. A lot of the traffic on that route is trucking, which isn't helped by high-speed rail. You say it's connected by highways, but if you are riding the train you don't have a car. A bus? Kind of makes the train speed irrelevant if you are trying out a bus route from Bakersfield to somewhere else. Not seeing the user story for this project.