But when you try and cross these river canyons, freeways, railroad cities, you end up flying above them with these elevated platforms of concrete and steel and just huge resources. It's going to be $130 billion to go from Merced to Bakersfield. And we still don't have the engineering as to how we get over the hatch piece or over to the coast. So it's a real horrible example of government ineffectiveness. (05:08–05:14)
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Asserts that the high-speed rail project will cost $130 billion to go from Merced to Bakersfield.
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