District 5 Diary: Yesterday's high-speed rail hearing

From the Fresno Bee (Kings County opponents of high-speed rail get their court date):

“They’re building a first section called the IOS[initial operating segment] South from Merced to Burbank, and they don’t have the money to build it,” Flashman said, pointing to the authority’s $31 billion estimate for that part of the system. “They’re nowhere close. How can you say it’s financially viable when you can’t even build it?…If you can’t build it, it obviously can’t operate at a profit.”