Source: New York Post
California’s flailing High-Speed Rail project is undergoing yet another marketing smokescreen, with soaring costs leading officials to pitch a pipe dream of bullet trains depositing riders at Yosemite National Park. Facing ballooning costs and missed deadlines, the boondoggle – now estimated to cost well over $100 billion if it’s ever completed – has state rail officials and Central Valley leaders floating a plan to shift the future Merced station out of downtown and rebrand it as a Yosemite access point. However, the newly proposed station, which would reportedly be about four miles southeast of the originally proposed station in downtown Merced, would still require bus shuttles to ferry tourists 70 miles to trailheads.
