Although I hate to admit it because I love the idea of CA HSR, it seems like allocating that eleventy billion dollars or whatever it’s supposed to cost, towards

Although I hate to admit it because I love the idea of CA HSR, it seems like allocating that eleventy billion dollars or whatever it’s supposed to cost, towards making sleeper car service on this route cheap and readily available (in other words making sure they can do long enough trains, and subsidizing prices to bring down ticket costs) would have had a bigger impact than the ambitious but decades-long effort that we are doing (unless Dems lose the political power anytime in the 2020s, at which point they might just abandon it all to rot half-finished and useless). I know I’d be just fine with making that trip this way especially if those tax dollars brought down the cost.