Needed: Someone brave enough to stop California’s crazy train

Published December 9, 2018 5:00am ET



In 2008, California voters took a fateful vote to borrow money and build a $40 billion high-speed rail system that was supposed to connect San Francisco to San Diego by 2022.

Ten years later, the cost estimate for California’s crazy train has now gotten as high as $98 billion, blowing the doors off the original estimate.

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