I think the rail will only succeed if funding for it is conditioned on actual delivery of rail services to paying customers, instead of funding it up front like a foyer bathroom remodel with shady contractors and no accountability.
The central valley deserves train stops imo, definitely including Bakersfield. There are a lot of people living there and it’s an area of relative housing affordability, something which greater California could not enable enough.
Is this for real? Do these exist and are they any good?