What’s Happening With California’s High-Speed Rail System.

Well, most of the action is in the courts and in boardrooms.  I hate that.  The system will get built and I sure as hell hope that when it finally does, that the fact that it got built in a state with pretty strict environmental rules and prevailed anyway, will dampen the enthusiasm of the NIMBYs.

Fun quote:

The Golden Gate Bridge had more than 2,000 lawsuits filed against it and was referred to by critics as an “upside down mouse trap.”