California’s Fake Fast-Train Project Puts Millions in Pen-Pushers’ Pockets — and Here’s the Real Reason Why
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In 2008, California voters approved funding for a high-speed rail line between San Francisco and Los Angeles. A group of contractors donated tens of thousands of dollars to support the ballot measure. A state program manager projected that the initiative would create more than 100,000 construction jobs.
Eighteen years and more than $15 billion later, not a single mile of high-speed track has been laid. The state hasn’t even laid track on the rump Merced-Bakersfield line that it wants to open in the 2030s. In a recently resurfaced video from his time as lieutenant governor, Gavin Newsom said the full project was unlikely to “materialize in our lifetime.”
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Christopher F. Rufo is a senior fellow and director of the initiative on critical race theory at the Manhattan Institute. Kenneth Schrupp is an investigative reporter at City Journal.
This piece was originally published in City Journal