The world’s slowest bullet train trundles ahead in California
An extra $3bn of federal funding is nice; as for the other $80bn, dream on
The Central Valley of California is a vast expanse of flat farmland, far from the bustling cities on the state’s coast. How surprising, then, to drive along its straight highways and suddenly see rising on concrete pillars one of America’s most ambitious infrastructure projects in decades: a bullet-train line planned to run between Los Angeles and San Francisco.
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This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “The rusty bullet”
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