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California Commentary by HJTA President

The lamest excuse for perpetuating the high-speed rail project
May 19, 2025
Opposition to California’s high-speed rail project keeps mounting. What began as a $10 billion bond measure to fund a rail project that would travel from Los Angeles to San Francisco has morphed into America’s most embarrassing boondoggle costing hundreds of billions of dollars. Throughout its tortured history, the project’s detractors have been proven right over and over again. It started with a Due Diligence Report from the Reason Foundation and the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association prior to the November 2008 election authorizing the HSR bond. The study concluded that, “The CHSRA [California High-Speed Rail Authority] plans as currently proposed are...