Yeah, that's a good assessment. It is troubled, but I don't think you can do big projects without trouble. Think about how high tensions can get when planning

Yeah, that's a good assessment. It is troubled, but I don't think you can do big projects without trouble. Think about how high tensions can get when planning a two week software engineering sprint. Now imagine a project that's a million times bigger than that, where people will have their houses torn down. There's going to be some trouble. What is amazing that despite the trouble, some progress is being made. (There are lots of things working against CAHSR. The route has been chosen politically rather than to minimize SFO-LAX travel times. Given infinite budget, you travelers on that route don't want to go through Bakersfield, as it's out of the way. And, the SFO/LAX city pair is already not a particularly optimal pair, it is kind of reaching the high end of distances that make high-speed rail the best travel option. That's why I look at Texas Central and Brightline for models of what to do in the future. Texas Central is a really good city pairing, in a region where their 16 lane highways can't handle the traffic volume. But I temper my enthusiasm in that not a lot of construction work has been done; I can't find any updates newer than September 2021 when the CEO said pessimistically that there is only a 50/50 chance that construction will start in the next 6 months. We're near the end of those 6 months.)