It's BS. Some people just don't want anything built.
Some people don't want anything built! Some people equals 87% of Californians polled do not want the Bullet Train built. Instead polled respondents want existing infrastructure (roads, highways, bridges etc) repaired, maintained and upgraded.
From above linked article @ bottom
But opponents to the project point out the fact that
voters are not getting what they were promised back in 2008. The San Diego Union-Tribune highlighted these concerns regarding the high-speed rail project in an editorial:
If Richard and the CHSRA are sincere about addressing local concerns, it’s time they also sincerely address big-picture concerns, which hinge on
legally binding promises made to state voters in 2008 to win passage of Proposition 1A. The measure provided $9.95 billion in bond seed money for the project.
One of those promises was that construction would not begin until all the money was in hand to build a route that could be self-sustaining if full project funding wasn’t available. The rail authority has never identified how it will pay for the $31 billion, 300-mile initial operating segment from Merced to the San Fernando Valley. Attorney General Kamala Harris declined to appeal the section of a broader Sacramento Superior Court ruling that concluded
the state didn’t have a legal business plan.
