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How taxpayers were taken for a ride on the train to nowhere

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What moves faster than California’s high-speed rail, nearly 20 years in the making with zero track laid?

Well, almost anything, apparently.

But in this case, we mean the evident bilking of taxpayers.

As the California Post recently reported: Per the project’s own inspector general, high-speed rail consultants collected more than $680,000 in dubious travel reimbursements — including for first-class plane tickets, international jaunts and rides to places like gyms, tiki rooms and nightclubs.

Taxpayers even covered bills for a flight via private aircraft, Uber Black luxury service, and rides from clubs at 2:30 a.m.

That’s galling — and yet another reason to bring the troubled project to a halt.

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