Ian Choudri, who has led the train agency since 2024, leaves a troublesome legacy marked by budget woes, project delays and various scandals, including questionable taxpayer-funded trips by consultants.

Oh that's not what Gavin hired him to do?

It’s a cursed job. At this point, no one competent would take it, because they’d know it’s a lemon.

The shitty thing really is that California so desperately needs this rail link, and yet everyone is just as corrupt as conservatives say they are. That's the worst part, that it's proving naysayers right.

Its been over 10 years and we have a few bridges and track supposedly will be starting this year. Meanwhile billions have already been spent. It should be done. Minimal we should see massive crews building it.

And China continues to absolutely own the US on high-speed rail...

Nationalize the goddamn high-speed rail. Just hire the workers and oversee the construction directly rather than bidding this out. Of course, no one in government could be entrusted with the task. Fucking joke of a country and joke of a state.

So which company picked him back up and gave him a raise?

State investigators last month found the rail agency’s consultants flew first class

Kind of ironic...