Opinion: California just drastically cut its plan for high speed rail — and it’s the latest example of the US failing to do what the rest of the world has already figured out

By Graham Rapier, Business Insider; February 13, 2019

In his State of state address on Tuesday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a drastic cutback to the state’s ambitious high-speed rail plans.

Instead of stretching the roughly 380 miles from San Francisco to Los Angeles, the new plan will focus instead on a main corridor from Bakersfield and Merced in California’s central valley — well away from the state’s major population centers.

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