Commentary
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.
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
Author
Lance Christensen is the vice president of California Policy Center, a nonprofit focused on reducing public sector barriers to prosperity. 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.
