It makes no sense to build a high speed rail where half of it traverses barely populated areas in central california in the desert, and not run it up the coast where everyone lives and also is where people love to visit the most - you'd get locals and tourists to flock to that train. They build infrastructure through all sorts of crazy geography in Europe and Japan, but somehow here we can't do it. It's insane. They'll build highways anywhere here,, but fuck mass transit. Completely backwards thinking.