To put this into perspective, China's high-speed rail project in Indonesia connecting Jakarta and Bandung (a distance of 143 km) at a speed of 350 km/h was completed in just four months at total cost of $7.3 billion.
This line has seen an impressive number of passengers, with approximately 2 million people utilizing the service.
Zeno's California Rail Project. Its so fucking funny that "damn, this whole thing is shady af, look at all the grifts and crimes and cons involved!" was a B-plot in a True Detective season released in 2015 and they're still getting away with it.