My note about LAX was just to point out that although HSR won't go to Long Beach directly it will still be used by people from there, just as they are willing to go to LAX to use transportation available there.

And, no, I don't expect this will be completed any time soon, just as the Interstates didn't just jump out of the earth fully formed. You didn't notice my comment, "I'll be dead"?

Money? Of course it will take money. The one source that has stopped is the Federal government. They built the Interstate System with an 90/10 match with the states, now 80/20. And if you want non-highway transportation 50/50 with limited funds.

Unfortunately Obama thought HSR was a good idea (as did Trump by the way), so the Republican Party has to kill it. They want every trace of anything that Obama did erased, even if it hurts the citizenry. Asbestos? Sure. Bring back coal? Sure. Bring back pagers? Why not? Everything was better in the good old days.