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High-Speed Rail: Should Californians ‘End the Nightmare’?
California’s high-speed rail funding was delayed yet again, causing some to wonder if the project truly is a train to nowhere.
When voters passed Proposition 1A in 2008, the estimated $30 billion transportation project was designed to let Californians travel from Los Angeles to San Francisco in two hours.
However, current estimates from the High-Speed Rail Authority now project $126 billion for a bare-bones “optimized plan,” and $250 billion for the original plan as approved by voters—a 700% increase over the initial budget.
Assemblyman David Tangipa, R-Fresno, told The Daily Signal the High-Speed Rail Authority’s “optimized” plan is not only costly, but “illegal.”
“The plan that was given to us right now is illegal. It’s non-compliant with state law, and we’ve got to have a really hard look in the mirror of what California high-speed rail is going to look like in the future,” he said. ” … I think that we have to go all the way back to the books and potentially go back to the voters to see if they still approve this project like they did........