There are no current engineering plans for the high speed rail, the California high speed rail project, to go over the Tehachapis to reach Los Angeles. There are no current engineering or budget plans for the high speed rail to go over the coastal range to get to Silicon Valley or San Francisco. This, Mister secretary, is a useless project, and it's in the way of us widening our highways. We are a very significant transportation corridor between San Francisco and LA, up and down the west coast. (02:45–02:54)
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Asserts that there are no current engineering or budget plans for the high-speed rail to reach Silicon Valley or San Francisco.
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