Democrats Keep High-Speed Rail Alive in California

California's high-speed trains will make it out of the station after all.

In December, with rail projects toppling like dominoes across the country, I wrote a postmortem for President Obama’s dream of a nationwide high-speed rail network. The concept was dead in Wisconsin, Florida, and Ohio—killed by Republican governors in each instance—and appeared doomed even in liberal California, which had approved a $40-plus billion Los Angeles-to-San Francisco line in 2008 only to see costs soar, obstacles mount, and voters turn against it.

On Friday, though, the Democrats in California’s state senate ignored the polls and the state’s budget problems and green-lighted $8 billion in funding for the first leg of the railroad, from Madera to Bakersfield. It’s a case of either extraordinary leadership or extraordinarily unresponsive government, given that the public opinion surveys repeatedly showed that voters would have rejected the plan if it were back on the ballot.  Cont. Reading

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Today the bankrupt state of California has approved a $68 - $100+ billion dollar bullet train from San Francisco to Los Angeles. If you live in California and you’re not on the dole, I strongly suggest you move as soon as possible because like ObamaCare this project will be the straw that breaks the camel’s back.