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High-speed rail in California.

The state’s signature “green” project, now close to 20 years old, has yet to lay an inch of track.

But the delusions keep chugging along.

The California High Speed Rail authority has asked the feds for a grant of almost $400 million to help build 30 miles of track between Madera and Merced, The California Post reported. 

Really. 

Even after President Donald Trump boasted of rescinding $4 billion from the long-stalled project last year, calling it a “disastrously overpriced, ‘HIGH SPEED TRAIN TO NOWHERE,’” on Truth Social.

California would do better to drop the pretense, halt the project and reroute rail spending to more pressing state needs.

The project got another smackdown from the feds this week, with a US Department of Transportation spokesman noting the effort has squandered billions of taxpayer dollars while producing “nothing.”

It’s hard to quibble with that take.

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Team Trump added that it broadly supports high-speed, but will not back the California boondoggle.

The “Train to Nowhere” is a longtime laughingstock, after all.

The grand vision was sold to California voters as a way to zip between LA and San Francisco, at a total-build cost of $33 billion to $45 billion.

In the years since, the rail authority has shrunk the project focus to a Central Valley stretch between Merced and Bakersfield — and revised the total-build cost to $126.3 billion. 

But wait, there’s more, as project planners continue to spend more and promise less.

The rail authority confirmed in June that the current proposed route will stop short of downtown Merced and downtown Bakersfield — ending several miles from each city center at lower-cost “interim” locations.

That will make the train, if track is ever laid, even less accessible for those who might use it.

So the Train to Nowhere has become the train that doesn’t even quite get to Nowhere. 

What’s the point of pushing this pathetic effort further?

There’s no great need for it, when travelers can drive, fly or ride existing rail.

And it’s long since become a farce.

Spare the taxpayers and end it already.