> California’s failed high-speed rail

Everybody throwing shade a California HSR but uh Texas wanted one starting in 2009 [1], "finished" planning in 2015 [1] and a decade later only has a fancy website to show for it [3].

While California voted in 2008 [4] and broke ground in 2015 and has an impressive ;) 22 miles done in the past decade. And in response to the very slow time, California is blocking CEQA [5] from affecting government projects which will speed up construction [6].

The author does have some points, however they are missing that work is being done on this.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Central_Railway

[2]: https://texascentral.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/...

[3]: https://www.texascentral.com/project/

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_High-Speed_Rail

[5]: https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/06/30/governor-newsom-signs-into...

[6]: https://gsppi.berkeley.edu/programs/highspeedrail/docs/Schwe...