Part of why it ballooned was that Palmdale wanted to be in on the route. So that connection would add more time and money to the project. There were a lot of ci

Part of why it ballooned was that Palmdale wanted to be in on the route. So that connection would add more time and money to the project. There were a lot of cities that wanted to be in on this. From personal experience (family that lives in Fresno), Fresno revamped downtown to get ready for all this. They cleaned up the Fulton Mall route, pumped a ton of money into the area, realtors were banking on Airbnb housing for all the construction jobs coming in from out of town. Fresno even made a concession to allow tiny trailers to be parked and connected on properties with homes on them already. Then the state shut it down. Another reason from what I’ve pieced together is that California had so many hurdles to jump through. Namely the environmental reports that had to be made.