>Hill said the cost increases were mainly driven by problems including higher costs for land acquisition, issues in relocating utility systems, the need for saf

>Hill said the cost increases were mainly driven by problems including higher costs for land acquisition, issues in relocating utility systems, the need for safety barriers where the bullet trains would operate near freight lines and demands by stakeholders for the mitigation of myriad issues. There could of been an entire article written about these issues. Instead we got a bunch of stuff about politics. What's the point of writing an article about problems with a major infrastructure project without any discussion of the problems?