Going Nowhere Fast: California’s Costly High-Speed Rail Project

Commentary In 2013, I called California’s high-speed rail (HSR) “the gift that keeps on taking.” Over a decade later, it remains the boondoggle that refuses to die—a zombified infrastructure dream that devours billions while going nowhere fast. Back in 2008, voters passed Proposition 1A under the illusion they’d be boarding a bullet train connecting San […]