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California issues an RFQ (Request for Qualifications) in preparation of buying trainsets capable of travelling around 220mph (355km/h), two prototypes, a simulator, spare parts and operational availability for 30 years. Timeline for revenue operation currently is at year 2030.
E: Official release from California government: https://hsr.ca.gov/2023/08/24/news-release-california-high-speed-rail-authority-moves-closer-to-buying-first-trainsets/
Is there any specific reason someone might be against it beyond the cost?
Car lobby
I think the general arguments are noise and space required.
Though I fail to see how a train make more noise then a plane or tracks take up more space then a airport/runway.
Or compared to interstate highways
The cost is admittedly going to be ludicrous compared to comparable projects anywhere else in the world.
But it’s probably more just ‘this is a thing that helps the godless commie city folk’.
They have been conditioned to hate anything the government does. If some company like Tesla actually made an effective transit system everyone would sing its praises, but if the government does it then that’s socialism.