Calls to scale back or abandon California’s long-running high-speed rail project are gaining renewed attention after a sharp increase in projected costs. During a recent Senate Transportation Committee hearing, updated estimates suggested the full system could reach as much as $231 billion, a figure that immediately drew criticism from some lawmakers and policy analysts.
The project has been controversial almost from the start. When voters approved it in 2008, the plan was to connect Los Angeles and San Francisco with a high-speed line costing roughly $33 billion, with trains running by 2020.
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