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Why California Failed High-Speed-Rail
2022 • E18 May 26, 2022 17m
When it was initially proposed, the California High Speed Rail was supposed to only cost $40 billion and link San Francisco to Los Angeles by 2029. However, the costs have now ballooned to nearly $100 billion, and the target completion date has been pushed out to at least 2033. What went wrong for California's construction efforts?