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State should have taken
Swiss approach to rail
Re: “Newsom was originally right about California bullet train” (Page A6, Dec. 12).
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Gov. Newsom’s skepticism about the bullet train was spot on. The biggest issue isn’t cost overruns, it’s our inability to focus on completing a project on time.
Having lived in Switzerland for many years I asked one of their retired engineers about how the Swiss would have done it. “We’d have drawn a straight line between San Francisco and Los Angeles and built it. We could have had it done in one, perhaps two years max.”
The Swiss continue to prove that they are, truly, the best folks to engineer and build rapid transit systems. Expensive? Sure. But with our cost overruns included, it would have been a bargain.
James Thurber
Half Moon Bay
