California’s high-speed rail line could connect rural Merced to Bakersfield by 2032, local authorities say, though it will operate at a massive loss.
That’s according to an annual report released Friday by the California High-Speed Rail Authority — the first report after the Trump administration canceled $4 trillion in federal funding to the project, which has long since abandoned the idea of linking San Francisco to Los Angeles.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has clung to the rural portion of the project, even after canceling the San Francisco-to-L.A. segment in his first weeks in office in 2019.
Currently, Merced and Bakersfield are easily connected by ordinary road and rail, or — in a pinch — by air. The lack of demand for high-speed rail is reflected
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