California’s much-maligned High-Speed Rail project was hit with a dose of reality on Wednesday.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy released a compliance review of the project on Wednesday, finding that it has no viable path forward to completion.

The backstory: California voters approved High-Speed rail in 2008 for a projected total cost of $33 billion to connect San Francisco to Los Angeles by 2020. • That pitch proved to be overly ambitious, with the High-Speed Rail Authority revealing that it won’t be able to even complete the Merced to Bakersfield line by 2031 at the earliest. • The project’s total cost has also ballooned to around $130 billion, and in March, the California Legislative Analyst’s Office told state lawmakers that the project has a $7 billion funding gap that

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