LA to Vegas makes far more sense to me anyway than the LA to SF route. What the heck is the need to go through the central Valley?
On the other hand, if you went to Vegas first and preserved the Central Valley route you would be half way or more to the valley and have a sense of how it would work with a paying route to Vegas first.
The whole project should be OBE anyway with the tube project that promises what, 700mph. CA has more money than good sense except in this case their dreams are mythical reality before the money has been appropriated from the people.
The “tube project” that’s more imaginary?
The “tube” crosses fault lines between LA coast, LA central city, and LA mountain/basins which will break it every 6 months.
Of course, so will the LA-SFO high-speed train. Which will be slower than the planes anyway! AND more expensive.
But it is contracted to Diane Feinsteins’ husband. Unbreakable money! What’s not to like for 69 billion?
(When a complete wall at the border is only 1.1 billion?)