Ian Choudri

Built World

Leading the 2026 business plan rollout and search for replacement funding after federal grants were terminated

California voters approved a bullet train in 2008 with a $33 billion price tag and promised to whisk passengers from San Francisco to Los Angeles by 2020. Eighteen years later, no train has run, the price tag has climbed to roughly $231 billion, and the first segment—Merced to Bakersfield in the Central Valley—won't carry passengers until 2033.

Updated May 31