California’s high-speed train program is a long-fought victory in the Golden State. Years in the making, it was won at the ballot box on Nov. 4, 2008.
So let’s try to get a sense of why it would not have made much sense to begin construction in either the Los Angeles region or the San Francisco Bay Area or both. For starters, Prop. 1A stipulated that $9 billion of $9.95 billion total was to...
