I really like Wendover Productions, but the California High-Speed Rail: An Autopsy video he put out today is pissing me off.
Spoilers, but the conclusion it comes to is that California HSR is too ambitious and it failed to be pragmatic because it checks notes actually services people in the Central Valley. Based on the way the video started, I expected to think that the California HSR authority made a bunch of stupid decisions that drove the project costs up. By the end of it, all of the stupid decisions basically boiled down to, "It's going to service more people." Like.
Just to go point-by-point:
I'm so tired of people doing autopsy videos on the California HSR project like it's somehow dead. It's not. It's being built, and it's being built (mostly) correctly.
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