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Going Nowhere Fast: California’s Costly High-Speed Rail Project

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Going Nowhere Fast: California’s Costly High-Speed Rail Project
Construction workers build the Hanford Viaduct over Highway 198 as part of the California High Speed Rail transit project in Hanford, California, on Feb. 12, 2025. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images
Lance Christensen
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In 2013, I called California’s high-speed rail (HSR) “the gift that keeps on taking.” More than a decade later, it remains the boondoggle that refuses to die—a zombified infrastructure dream that devours billions while going nowhere fast.

Lance Christensen
Lance Christensen
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Lance Christensen is the president of California Policy Partners, a business membership association dedicated to improving economic and educational opportunities for Californians. He has two decades of public policy and political experience working in and out of the state legislature, the Department of Finance, educational nonprofits and as a candidate for State Superintendent of Public Instruction in 2022.
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