California High-Speed Rail price tag explodes to $231 billion

"Our country has never seen a fiscal disaster of this magnitude," says California congressman Kevin Kiley.
Hoodline

California Bullet Train Gets Smaller While The Bill Gets Bigger

California’s latest right-sized vision for a San Francisco-to-Los Angeles bullet train trims what riders were promised while inflating the tab yet again. The new draft business plan pegs an optimized first phase at about $126 billion,

For the first time, California’s bullet train is moving beyond concrete and into track, and that shift may decide whether the project ever feels real

California's bullet train just hit the tracks. See how the new 150-acre Wasco railhead is turning "earthmoving" into high-speed reality.

Will high-speed rail ever arrive in the U.S.?

An ambitious state-run high-speed rail project linking Los Angeles and San Francisco has gone off track.

Eye-popping price tag for detour around Cesar Chavez gravesite adds to California high-speed rail humiliation

California’s soaring cost for its dragged-out high-speed rail construction was inflated by another recent political embarrassment for the state: labor icon Cesar Chavez. Calls are growing for California’s high-speed rail to be abandoned completely after revelations this week that the estimated cost of completing the fantasy train project has ballooned to a staggering $231 billion.
Opinion

Opinion: San Diegans should be furious about the bullet train to nowhere

San Diego was promised a bullet train to Los Angeles. Gavin Newsom once promised to deliver it. Neither promise has been kept.