Trump is actually right on California's high-speed rail

And, yeah, if cutting $4 billion in federal subsidies either forces California to get its shit together, or else walk away, so be it.

I said 15 years ago that HSR projections in California were dubious.

Six months after I wrote that, I went into much more detail about everything wrong with California's high-speed rail plans.

The clusterfuck of stupidities included too many stops and not straight enough lines.

Beyond the problems, it also included miscomparisons, as I noted much of "old Europe" trains aren't really "high speed" rail, just "faster than US" rail. 

There's also the massive stupidity that, unlike in Europe, rail lines in general in the US, including HSR proposals, whether in California, Tex-ass or Flori-duh, don't tie into airports. 

In Governor Pothole's California, cost overruns are less a problem than construction delays. The main line, San Fran to LA, was supposed to be done by 2020. Even if the federal money stayed, I doubt it would be done by 2030.