California’s bumpy effort to build high-speed rail #shorts
60 Minutes·2026-04-07 23:11

By 2019, costs ballooning and the timeline years off schedule, bipartisan political pressure mounted. Newly elected Governor Gavin Newsom said this in his first state of the state. Right now, there simply isn't a path to get from Sacramento to San Diego, let alone from, you know, San Francisco to LA.Under Newsom, who didn't respond to repeated interview requests, California decided to focus on that initial Central Valley segment, a route few clamored for and fewer are likely to ride, though the ultimate goa ...

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