While I don’t know if the High Speed rail prop is a good one as written, we as a country, not just a state, need to invest in this eventually. It will give people an option to air travel at some point, and it has to be less costly to push a vehicle along rails than to lift it up to 30,000 feet in the air.
If high speed rail is successful, it will put a big dent in domestic air travel revenue, but I think that’s inevitable.