The hypocrisy is rich. Red state governors trash California's high speed rail execution like it's some uniquely California failure, when the truth is transit is broken everywhere in America. Austin is the perfect case study. Voters approved a 20-mile light rail in 2020, jacked their property taxes up 20% to fund it. Now costs have tripled per mile and the scope got cut in half. You think Texas leadership is better at this? They're not. Nobody is. This isn't about California screwing up transit. It's about Americans refusing to fund transit properly and then acting shocked when cutting corners destroys the project.