Don’t miss the article from Reason magazine explaining that the California leadership knew all along that the high speed “bullet train” line between San Francisco and Los Angeles could not be workable but went ahead with it anyway. Matt Welch, The Political Class Knew California High-Speed Rail Was B.S., and Supported it Anyway : see http://reason.com/blog/2016/06/28/the-political-class-knew-california-high/print
A good read.