I think he had more in mind than that, also pull fubding away and prevent decisions aand he chose the Wiss Metro conceot to that end because it made HSR look bad in comparison while had tero chance of ever getting built. After that went the way it was alqays going to go, ... south, he "invented" taxis in sewer tunnels. Las Vegas was corrupt enough to shelf plans fir some proper light rail in favour of that. Luckily noone else was.