Depending on who you ask, California’s bullet train project is either going nowhere or making real headway. This much is certain: The map below, based on the last High-Speed Rail Authority Business Plan to project a date for completion of “phase one” — San Francisco to Orange County, via Los Angeles — is now a reminder of a more optimistic time. I’m leaving it here because the Bakersfield-Merced starter segment, at least, should be completed in a few years.

NOTES ON DESIGN

The geometry of the CAHSR system is naturally conducive to a strip map. And while I’m not sure what the official High-Speed Rail Authority typeface is, it’s something similar to Futura, the font that’s used here.

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