Yes but now it's "shovel ready" (almost) and the money will come flooding in!! (Just hurt myself laughing). But seriously this will be a tool in the quest for funding, it's hard to believe that they'd stop in Bakersfield. It's interesting that a private common carrier project has to go thru a neutral STB for enviro approval and even after approval the final permission to build is another step. Here we have the CAHSR essentially approving their own environmental with seemingly no limit to the peripheral damage (those 200 plus homes and businesses)