California high-speed rail blows past another deadline

The bond measure that California voters approved in 2008 to build a bullet train contained plenty of safeguards to make sure the high-speed rail project didn’t become a half-finished boondoggle and an ongoing burden to taxpayers. It was a good try.
Proposition 1A promised a train that would travel between San Francisco and Los Angeles in two hours and 40 minutes without a tax increase or a public subsidy. It contained assurances that no money would be spent to begin construction on a segme