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Once-grand California can’t finish a 2-mile airport train in seven years

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There was a time when California built big things efficiently. 

In the 1930s, for example, the state simultaneously constructed the iconic Golden Gate Bridge and Bay Bridge — both marvels of engineering — in about a four-year span. 

Both on time. Both on budget.

Today, examples abound of California construction projects gone (way) awry. 

One of those is the long-awaited People Mover at LAX.

The project’s contractor, LAX Integrated Express Solutions, disclosed this month that the train — intended to whisk people around LA’s famously sprawling airport — will not open in October as most recently planned.

Instead, the 2.25-mile-spanning train just might be ready in January. Maybe. Could be. If the stars and other variables align.

The inert people mover underscores a stark reality in California: Our culture of efficiently building things — especially big things — has not just deteriorated. It’s collapsed. 

Projects take too long, deliver too little, and cost too much.

That culture needs to change.

The preeminent example, of course, is the state’s High-Speed Rail to nowhere: Nearly 20 years in........

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