This is all contingent on:

1) Trump remains in power in 2020
2) 3.5 billion fed dollars are still on the table in 2021
3) Significant construction progress isn't made, ie incomplete segments less than 5 miles still exist by 2021.


Buried lede Wrote:
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> "The California High Speed Rail Authority has a
> new plan to complete the necessary construction
> for 119 miles of track in the Central Valley by
> 2022, as required by federal grant agreements.
> They’re going to build the track in non-continuous
> 5-mile segments.
>
> Just when you thought nothing could be more
> ridiculous than the plan to run the bullet train
> between San Jose and an orchard near Wasco, the
> rail authority announces a plan to build segments
> of track that don’t connect to each other."
>
>
>
> This got overlooked 2 weeks ago.
>
> [www.latimes.com]
> 6/the-federal-standoff-on-california-bullet-train-
> is-getting-deeper
>
> "The California bullet train authority is moving
> ahead with an aggressive plan to issue its biggest
> contract in history, steering into sharp criticism
> by federal regulators and even the state-appointed
> peer review panel that it is overreaching.
>
> The agency took a key step last week toward
> issuing a 30-year-long contract to install track,
> set up high-voltage electrical lines, create a
> digital signaling system, build a heavy
> maintenance train garage and obligate future
> maintenance of the equipment and track.
>
> It would cover future track from San Jose to
> Bakersfield, more than half the proposed Los
> Angeles-to-San Francisco system. It would lock the
> state into a maintenance contract, as well as
> equipment, on segments that it currently does not
> have money to build."
>
>
> "If the state fails to accelerate its current slow
> work pace, it could end up not having all the
> civil work completed to install track by 2022.
>
> To help manage that, the state plans to install
> track in non-continuous 5-mile segments, a plan
> that federal regulators said is complex and would
> prevent a “calculated or logical progression.” The
> letter was signed by Juliana Shu Barnes, a career
> civil servant who is a project manager."