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LETTER: High-speed rail boondoggle

Updated October 13, 2025 - 10:03 am

So the cost for the Brightline West high-speed rail project has ballooned from $12 billion to $21 billion (Oct. 4 Review-Journal). I don’t know, but this seems to me as good a reason as any to cancel this boondoggle.

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