Jim Costa is not going to get a special HSR for Fresno

The $900 million dollar bribe to Fresno voters for Jim Costa berely survived, and LA is pissed that Costs gets the first $900 million for a Fresno HSR.  From the AntiPlanner:

The federal government’s most recent $900 million grant to the California High-Speed Rail Authority came with a string attached: most of the money had to be spent, not in Los Angeles or San Francisco where most potential rail patrons are located, but in the central valley. Handed out just before the election, the grant was a blatant attempt to help the re-election effort of U.S. Representative Jim Costa. It might have made a difference, for despite the fact that Costa’s district leans heavily Democrat, he won over an unknown Republican candidate by a mere 3,000 votes. But now California has to deal with the fact that it only has enough funds to build a high-speed train to nowhere. The authority expects to vote tomorrow on whether to start construction from Borden to Corcoran.

I know Corcoran, but could not find Borden.  But wherever those towns connect, I will travel the line at 200 MPH.