California’s high-speed choo-choo train drifted further into bizarro world Tuesday when the project’s lead government body announced a $2.8 billion jump in costs for the first 119-mile section of the planned 800-mile route.
At the California High-Speed Rail Authority’s monthly board meeting, Roy Hill, who heads the project’s main consulting firm, said the project has reached a “worst-case scenario” of increases unanticipated by the rail authority, but widely predicted outside the halls of state government, even in a confidential analysis by the Federal Railroad Administration.
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