Kopp has claimed he favored the obvious Tejon-Grapevine routing but Palmdale interests opposed it. I assume it was primarily Antonovich and the Ranch leading the embargo of Tejon.

I voted for Prop 1a and at the time I thought Pacheco and the 99 corridor was the way to go. But I never supported a Tehachapi-Mojave-Palmdale routing. After a while I came to my senses and realized that Altamont and I-5 was the responsible and most efficacious way to proceed. I figured the engineers and experts were already ahead of me. Was I wrong and naive.

Real estate exploiters control and run California politix. You are going to get wasted base tunnels no matter what and how much it costs.

But I think I might have to hold my nose and vote for Warren in the primary just to try to derail the patronage guy Biden.