MONORAIL! Austin Seeking Another Rail Boondoggle?

You might remember Austin’s light rail boondoggle, which is now scaled back, behind schedule, and very possibly illegal. (For the current status on that project, see here.)

Now more Austin elites, in the form of the Travis County Commissioner’s Court (an organization so far in the shadow of the Austin City Council that I didn’t previously have a tag for them) has funded the study of a high speed rail line between Austin and San Antonio, the price tag for which would be a staggering $13.5 Billion.

Get your act together, Austin — this is piker-level grifting. California is spending 10 times that much on a rail line that doesn’t even connect the two big cities it’s supposed to connect.