There's also a plan to connect to SF and LA eventually. Those will be built as (if) they are funded. The only funding currently secured is the bakersfield to m

There's also a plan to connect to SF and LA eventually. Those will be built as (if) they are funded. The only funding currently secured is the bakersfield to merced leg. The problem is, that leg is nowhere to nowhere and is going to cost over 100B dollars. Most people take that to mean that it's incredibly unlikely that the more costly portions of the route (the ones that make it useful) will ever get built as they will be absurdly expensive.