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Once ‘Low Cost’ Bullet Train Plan Will Now Cost $800M Extra California awarded the contract for a 65-mile segment of the bullet train route to a company that promised $300M in savings. Now, the cost-saving designs have been changed and the project will run $800M over budget. Ralph Vartabedian, Los Angeles Times   |   February 22, 2021   |  News (TNS) — A 65-mile section of California's bullet train through the San Joaquin Valley that a contractor assured could be constructed much more cheaply — with radical design changes — has ...

A bridge that was supposed to take a year is incomplete after four, partly because of corrosion and other problems involving California’s high-speed-rail contractors. When the rail authority launched the Kings County work, Obama administration officials were exerting “immense pressure,” in the words of one former rail authority official, to get construction moving, even though it had fewer than 30 employees and was dependent on consultants. Four years earlier, the federal government had issued grants for what was supposed to be a “shovel ready” public works project, the nation’s l...