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California’s grand vision for a bullet train, originally to connect San Francisco to Los Angeles, has become a flash point in national politics.
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Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2026
While most neighborhoods are accessible through the city’s famously speedy bullet train system, staying in the outskirts could mean more time spent in transit than out sightseeing.
—Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 13 Feb. 2026
What Newsom treated as a huge deal was the opening of the California Railhead Facility, a 150-acre construction hub that could — emphasize, could — allow the state to finally begin laying its very first bullet train tracks by September for the first 119-mile segment between Bakersfield and Madera.
—U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Feb. 2026
Voters originally approved the plan in 2008, when it was seen as a bullet train that would carry people from San Francisco to Los Angeles.
—David Lightman, Sacbee.com, 4 Feb. 2026
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Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2026
While most neighborhoods are accessible through the city’s famously speedy bullet train system, staying in the outskirts could mean more time spent in transit than out sightseeing.
—Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 13 Feb. 2026
What Newsom treated as a huge deal was the opening of the California Railhead Facility, a 150-acre construction hub that could — emphasize, could — allow the state to finally begin laying its very first bullet train tracks by September for the first 119-mile segment between Bakersfield and Madera.
—U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Feb. 2026
Voters originally approved the plan in 2008, when it was seen as a bullet train that would carry people from San Francisco to Los Angeles.
—David Lightman, Sacbee.com, 4 Feb. 2026
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“Bullet train.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bullet%20train. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.
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