A railway that will be bankrupt in days, and will have to forever live off tax payer funding, running a route between two cities nobody wants is not a success.

A railway that will be bankrupt in days, and will have to forever live off tax payer funding, running a route between two cities nobody wants is not a success. That is, unless your definition of success is any mile of track laid, regardless of how it's used? That's a weird definition of success, if I may say so. As-is, people will need to drive 2.5 hours from SF to Merced, wait for a train, take a 1.5 hour train ride to Bakersfield, then rent a car and drive another 1.5 hours from Bakersfield to LA. All that saves about 1 hour of travel time (at the most!)... but requires renting a car, gas, etc. Basically, this thing is completely useless. Finally the government realized this and cancelled the entire project. Yet, the California Tax Payers that voted for the $30 Billion Bond Measure will continue to pay the extra taxes for decades to come...