It's not a terrible idea, but our Public university system is crumbling on 3 billion a year and Brown wants to invest 98 billion (an average of roughly 4.6 bill

It's not a terrible idea, but our Public university system is crumbling on 3 billion a year and Brown wants to invest 98 billion (an average of roughly 4.6 billion a year) on a train. Sounds like a bad long term strategy to me. Then again, epic public projects are huge sources of pride and tell the world "California is not falling into the past," unlike so many other aspects of a country in mature decline. I think that free or 1980's level-priced UC education would easily be on par with a train, if not even better; especially what's been said about autonomous driving. For all we know, if states play their hand right, there could be a ton of never-before-seen widespread private fundin for road systems, if this whole autonomous thing takes off.