Actually the latest figures show the price has increased sevenfold:
California’s long-delayed high-speed rail project is now facing renewed scrutiny after state leaders revealed a dramatically higher price tag, now estimated at roughly $231 billion, nearly seven times the original $33 billion projection approved by voters in 2008.
The revised figures have reignited talks in Sacramento over whether the project can realistically be completed, how long it will take, and whether the state can continue to fund it at this scale.
Note this (perhaps paywalled);
Add one more twist to the complicated legacy of disgraced civil rights icon Cesar Chavez: A reroute around his gravesite has inflated the cost of California’s high-speed rail project by nearly $1 billion.
Add a $1 billion detour for California high-speed rail to Cesar Chavez’s legacy
Can’t they just move the headstone and leave the body? Imagine the tourist opportunities if the train is haunted.
Not high-speed rail, but still rail: Colorado is finally maybe moving forward on a front range rail service connecting (eventually) Ft. Collins (or maybe even Cheyenne) in the north with Pueblo in the south.
The initial run will connect Longmont (about 30 miles north of Denver), and Denver, with a stops in Boulder and several other north Denver suburbs. It will use BNF tracks, so they can only do 2-4 trips a day to not interfere with freight rail.
And the train will be named CoCo. I’ve not heard if Conan O’Brien will be sponsoring.