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Gavin Newsom likes to boast that California has the world’s fourth-largest economy. So why can’t it build high-speed rail, while Morocco — which ranks 57th — has had it for years?
“The California High-Speed Rail Authority recently awarded its first track and systems contract and will begin laying track later this year,” boasts a June 24 email from US High Speed Rail. “Trains are planned to be operating between Merced and Bakersfield by 2032-2033.”
This contract, to…