The Train To Nowhere Goes Somewhere — Maybe

The promise of a bullet train connecting Los Angeles and San Francisco, and maybe even extending to San Diego to the south and Sacramento to the north, was broken longer before ground was broken in 2015 for the project. The route has been shortened, the construction timeline endlessly extended, and expectations ground to dust. 

Now comes another possible change. Merced, the town that was to be the northern terminus under of the train’s first completed phase, might be abandoned for Gilroy, the garlic capital of the world.