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60 Minutes Undersold The Madness of California’s Train-Building Disaster

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06.04.2026

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60 Minutes Undersold The Madness of California’s Train-Building Disaster

It works at something; just don’t expect it to work when it comes to carrying people from one place to another place.

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California is 11 years deep into active construction on a project to build a high-speed rail connection between Los Angeles and San Francisco, and it’s such an overpriced and unsuccessful disaster that even the rigidly left-wing 60 Minutes managed to notice.

In California’s Central Valley, some jokingly call these unfinished concrete structures their own “Stonehenge.” They were built for the state’s high-speed rail project, which has seen costs balloon and is years behind schedule. https://t.co/nN97QIgeuQ pic.twitter.com/LgPxx2XPtP— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) April 5, 2026

In California’s Central Valley, some jokingly call these unfinished concrete structures their own “Stonehenge.” They were built for the state’s high-speed rail project, which has seen costs balloon and is years behind schedule. https://t.co/nN97QIgeuQ pic.twitter.com/LgPxx2XPtP

But they didn’t even come close to seeing the scale of Gavin Newsom’s disaster. As The Federalist reported a month ago, California is trying to save the project by “gradually turning high-speed rail into not-high-speed rail,” revising construction plans to add cheaper sections that will........

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