California’s High-Speed Rail Dreams Could Go “Whoosh”
The Golden State Seems Primed to Repeat the Mistakes and Miscalculations of Indonesia’s New Bullet Train
The good news is that California will almost certainly have a high-speed rail line someday.
The bad news is that it may look a lot like “Whoosh.”
Whoosh is the name of the new high-speed rail line that opened last October on the Indonesian island of Java. Its existence is a breakthrough—Whoosh is the first bullet train in Southeast Asia and the Southern Hemisphere. Similarly, California’s train could be the first truly high-speed service in North America. (Amtrak’s Acela and Florida’s Brightline don’t count—they don’t surpass 150 miles per hour.)
I rode Whoosh …
