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Print this article With trillions of dollars of government money on offer, after the passage of the Biden administration’s so-called COVID-19 relief bill, there’s an informal and unarticulated competition for the worst and least productive uses of funds. Putting his entry in, even before the bill was passed, was incoming Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. His proposal: make the United States a global leader in high-speed rail. That’s a solid contender for the prize for the worst use of government trillions trillions, not just billions. True high-speed rail, averaging around 150 mph, requires dedicated track: you can’t safely run trains at that speed if there’s a freight train lolling around at 60 mph on the same track. California is supposedly spending $100 billion to build what was sold to voters in 2008 as a $33 billion high-speed rail line from Los Angeles to San Francisco. In real life, it looks likely to be completed only between Merced and Bakersfield. Ju

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