Originally Posted by
CalItalian
The bullet train is a much bigger boondoggle than this. It won't ever connect Los Angeles and San Francisco IF it ever really gets built (and most likely will end up being the San Joaquin train to nowhere). It's just a pick-pocketing politicians dream come true (and some crumbs for the union bosses)...
How many decades have they been talking about just connecting the slow moving Green Line to LAX? Welcome to Los Angeles...
Simplicity works best in L.A...building on former rail lines...like the vast majority of the light rail lines...
The bullet train is already being build and it will connect to LA and SF because both regional rail network are being electrified.
Green line is a lot of things but it is definitely now slow moving

It has its own right of way and is one of the fastest metro line in the US.