And yes I know I lack the right ~context~ and they’re trying their best and I shouldn’t criticize but it seems like installing 50 miles of overhead power lines should not be a major engineering challenge in 2020?

The overhead power system is already installed along substantial portions of the line… rebuilding of the SF tunnels to make room for the installation will wrap up this spring.

That said, they had schedule slips early on, installing the first batch of support poles for overhead electrification. They’re trying to make up for it with some success. It’s entirely worth asking why it’s so damn hard to do this sort of thing.

Well BART should be finished connecting to Santa Rosa by 3021

If gov means anything it's 'we get elected making promises, that almost never happen.' Sounds like they're doing great compared to the bullet train, which is an embarrassment from the most carefully PR crafted angle.

No, I do not.

Eventually, sure. Feels like the country stopped building shit in 1970, it’s 50 years later now and no one left actually remembers how to build anything.