Gavin Newsom set to inherit a troubled bullet train project

The messiest bit of unfinished business Gov. Jerry Brown will bequeath to successor Gavin Newsom is one of the outgoing governor’s pet projects, a north-south bullet train project.
One could even say it’s a hot mess, given the revelations of a new audit of the multi-billion-dollar project’s first phase.
That initial segment – 100-plus miles of track in the mostly flat, sparsely populated San Joaquin Valley, from Chowchilla to an orchard near Shafter, north of Bakersfield