If it leads to another supportive congress member for passenger rail, we'll take it.

When you have a decade of frivolous lawsuits trying to stop the project and years of political attempts to kill it, delays happen and costs go up. That said, the new CAHSRA CEO Ian Choudry has done a lot to turn the project around, speed up construction, and bring in private sector funding.

Dems passed a HSR funding bill during Obama's tenure. When Tea Party Repubs took over the House and Senate, they removed the funding. Sen. Markey and Rep. Moulton (Dems-Massachussetts) have repeatedly introduced HSR funding bills