The California High-Speed Rail Authority will need an additional $100 billion — above the nearly $30 billion it already has — to complete its original route from San Francisco to Los Angeles, CEO Brian Kelly told state legislators this week.
As Breitbart News noted in 2023, the project was set to cost $100 billion more than the $33 billion voters originally approved in 2008. And as Breitbart News was first to report in 2014, the journey from San Francisco to Los Angeles would not take less than three hours, as originally promised to the California electorate when they approved the plan.
Local NBC affiliate KCRA Sacramento reported:
Kelly testified in front of the State Senate’s Transportation Committee on the High-Speed Rail Authority’s updated draft business plan. In Tuesday’s hearing, Kelly told lawmakers the project has $28 billion dollars on hand, but noted it…
