“It needs a cheerleader. It needs someone that really is overlooking the whole thing,” former Governor Schwarzenegger said.
Some obstacles to building high speed rail include a major cost to taxpayers, discourse around route design, and dependence on fossil fuels. Maybe you haven’t thought much about California’s plan to build a high-speed rail line connecting Los Angeles and San Francisco since you voted for the nearly $10 billion bond measure to get the project started in 2008.
But now, as I reported this week, there’s also heightened urgency around the effort, as the United States struggles to seriously address climate change and to overhaul crumbling roads, bridges, tunnels and railways. “We’ve learned we can’t solve big problems like climate change situationally, with short-term thinking,” he said.
On its face, this is a money problem. The full line is now projected to cost $105 billion, and the state legislative analyst’s office said in a recent report that it’s unclear where a lot of that would come from. Brown, a Democrat who has been governor twice, recalled riding Japan’s bullet train in the early 1960s, not long after it was built. As someone who has fond childhood memories of riding Southern Pacific Railroad’s Coast Daylight and Lark trains, he was intrigued.
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