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California: We Need *Another* $100 Billion for High-Speed Rail

Ed Morrisey:

When I first started writing about California's high-speed rail boondoggle thirteen years ago, its advocates claimed they could connect Los Angeles and San Francisco for $33 billion. After getting $3.5 billion from the Obama administration, the number grew to $42 billion, and even then critics put closer to nine figures. Despite calling the project a "train wreck," the LA Times editorial board endorsed the project and a new state board that was supposed to exercise fiscal discipline and enforce construction deadlines. 

By November 2011, the California High-Speed Rail Authority admitted that the projected cost had ballooned to $98 billion. The state and the federal government insisted on pursuing the train nonetheless and claimed it would provide massive financial and environmental benefits at some point. And they kept pouring money into the project.

Flash forward a dozen years ahead to today. With no tracks completed for even a portion of the route, the CHSRA now wants more funding to keep the project moving. And when I say "more," I mean $100 billion more, and that may not be the end of the funding requests ….