By Dan Walters in The Sacramento Bee

March 17, 2016

Those charged with building California’s north-south bullet train system have been more or less making it up as they go along.

Preliminary construction is underway on a 118-mile stretch of track in the San Joaquin Valley, but what, if anything, happens after that section – from Madera to a field near Shafter – is finished has been, to put it charitably, uncertain.