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California’s high-speed rail delusions keep chugging along

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High-speed rail in California.

The state’s signature “green” project, now close to 20 years old, has yet to lay an inch of track.

But the delusions keep chugging along.

The California High Speed Rail authority has asked the feds for a grant of almost $400 million to help build 30 miles of track between Madera and Merced, The California Post reported. 

Even after President Donald Trump boasted of rescinding $4 billion from the long-stalled project last year, calling it a “disastrously overpriced, ‘HIGH SPEED TRAIN TO NOWHERE,’” on Truth Social.

California would do better to drop the pretense, halt the project and reroute rail spending to more pressing state needs.

The project got another smackdown from the feds this week, with a US Department of Transportation spokesman noting the effort has squandered billions of taxpayer dollars while producing “nothing.”

It’s hard to quibble with that take.

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