Parent post has a good point. "High speed rail" (aka the bullet train) in California is a cruel joke. The current plans have been utterly corrupted by various s

Parent post has a good point. "High speed rail" (aka the bullet train) in California is a cruel joke. The current plans have been utterly corrupted by various special interests--for example, the trains being forced to share slow commuter tracks near wealthy Bay Area housing developments. The project--if it ever gets built--will be nothing like the rail networks of Europe, unfortunately.