Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that he will desert the project to build a high-speed rail link from San Francisco to Los Angeles that had been a priority of his predecessor Jerry Brown.

Newsom made the surprise announcement on Tuesday in his first State of the State speech in Sacramento.

The original goal of connecting San Francisco with Los Angeles “would cost too much and take too long," Newsom said.

An estimate published last year said it would cost $77 billion to construct the bullet train and would not be complete until 2033.

Rather than continue with the vision of an SF-to-LA route, Newsom instead said he would pursue a humbler goal of building a train line in the Central Valley from Merced to Bakersfield.