Recent events relating to California High Speed Rail have prompted me to put this together. This is a continuation of Part 1. You can find it here:
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That one was about the project. This one is about why CAHSR is doomed. Just kidding. Not really kidding, only a little. California High Speed Rail has some major funding issues. The California High Speed Rail Authority also has a chronic problem with delays, cost overruns, terrible estimates and schedules. All of these factors are creating problems in different combinations. I discuss this.
The presentation of these is a little tongue-in-cheek in response to many YT content creator pieces that have been uploaded by people who assess these types of things in order to make a video, but otherwise know almost nothing about it. Things like the guy counting money every time money is mentioned are intentional. I am taking the information seriously. I am NOT taking the presentation of it particularly seriously.
Apologies for the low-tech approach on some of the graphics. I'm not one of these million sub infographic channels with a production team doing this for a living. It's just me making videos as a hobby. VO was a little rough. Forgive me. I have a very loud and unforgiving living environment, so I had to rush through it a bit.

I used Pexels.com for the vast majority of the video footage. Great little free stock footage site if you're looking for such things.

Adding chapters for your convenience:

0:00 Introduction
0:45 Will CAHSR Receive More Funding?
1:18 Scenario: No Additional Funding
2:56 Scenario: Project Receives More Funding
4:05 Funding Beyond Merced To Bakersfield?
5:05 Scenario: No Funds Beyond Merced To Bakersfield
5:35 Scenario: Funds Beyond Merced To Bakersfield
5:48 Funding For Silicon Valley To Central Valley?
6:11 Scenario: No Funds For Silicon Valley To Central Valley
6:32 Scenario: Funds For Silicon Valley To Central Valley
7:30 Build What They Can Fund
8:09 What Is Likely To Happen? Merced to Bakersfield
9:04 Worries about Silicon Valley to Central Valley
10:32 Bakersfield to Burbank: The Biggest Problem
11:20 The Depressing Prospects of a Piecemeal Process
11:36 The Even More Depressing Prospects of Phase 2
12:17 The CAHSR Funding Crisis
13:09 Why Phase 1 Will NOT be complete by 2034
14:40 Most Likely Real Cost of Phase 1
16:36 Why And How California Needs To Take Responsibility
17:08 Where Can California Possibly Get The Funds?
19:06 Summary
19:20 Top 3 and Bottom 3 Scenarios
19:46 Outro

California California High Speed Rail CAHSR Anaheim Fullerton Norwalk Los Angeles Union Station Burbank Hollywood Burbank International Airport Palmdale Lancaster Bakersfield Tulare Visalia Fresno Merced Gilroy San Jose San Francisco bay area