Taxpayers would still pay for virtually all of the rail project, just at a later date. The project has to rely on public funding because it was never designed to pay a financial return on the nearly $10 billion investment, the report said.

Either way the taxpayers get to bear the burden of the broken train. Tear it down, save $3 billlion plus unknown  maintenance to keep the broken train running. Keeping it going is an unknown factor plus change orders needed so the stations don't fall down, the plastic will always be cracking, as plastic does, and cables will be rusting due to poor workmanship. The rush to build has cost taxpayers billions. End the waste now and fix our sewers so sewerage isn't running into our oceans every time it rains, and water mains are not breaking weekly.