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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 become another troubling and costly chapter in the high-speed rail project, a
Times investigation found.
The segment runs across rivers, migratory paths for endangered species and an ancient lake bed through the length of Kings County, a fertile agricultural belt south of Fresno. Before awarding a contract for the section, the California High-Speed Rail Authority and its consultants knew
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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 largest.
Today, Dragados has not started construction on about half of its bridges and viaducts, four years after the original deadline of 2017, and it had
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