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The LA times only reports the high cost estimate for California's high speed rail because for whatever reason the LA Times has a hate boner for the project. If
by Gibbon1 5y ago
The LA times only reports the high cost estimate for California's high speed rail because for whatever reason the LA Times has a hate boner for the project. If you go by them the costs keep massively going up while nothing has been done so far. One can also read progress reports from the rail authority and look at satellite pictures. Which will both show that estimated cost is increasing 'a bit' and steady progress being made in the central valley.
https://www.buildhsr.com/ https://www.buildhsr.com/
Quote: The current cost estimate to deliver the 500-mile system linking San Francisco to Los Angeles/Anaheim via the Central Valley ranges from $69.01 to $99.9 billion.
From here
https://hsr.ca.gov/about/capital-costs-funding/ https://hsr.ca.gov/about/capital-costs-funding/
You can compare that to the BART Silicon Valley Extension Phase II. Budget for that is 6.9 billion for a six mile extension. Which the press is studiously ignoring.