{"id":1158,"date":"2018-11-16T03:04:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T03:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2018\/11\/16\/high-speed-rail-audit-in-california-biggest-cost-driver\/"},"modified":"2018-11-16T03:04:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T03:04:00","slug":"high-speed-rail-audit-in-california-biggest-cost-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/high-speed-rail-audit-in-california-biggest-cost-driver\/","title":{"rendered":"High Speed Rail Audit in California. Biggest Cost Driver?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not acquiring land prior to beginning construction is cited as the largest cost driver according to an audit of California&#8217;s High Speed Rail project.<\/p>\n<p>Rushed construction contributed to $600 million in cost overruns in a single\u00a0segment of the high spped project.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What happens if the project fails to accelerate the project? It will be forced to repay up to $3.5 billion to the federal government<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/politics-government\/the-state-worker\/article221711560.html\">Sacramento Bee |\u00a0Rushed construction cost high-speed rail $600 million and delays mount, audit finds<\/a><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bsa.ca.gov\/pdfs\/reports\/2018-108.pdf\">The Audit released November 15 2018<\/a><br \/>\n\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not acquiring land prior to beginning construction is cited as the largest cost driver according to an audit of California&#8217;s High Speed Rail project.<\/p>\n<p>Rushed construction contributed to $600 million in cost overruns in a single\u00a0segment of the high spped project.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What happens if the project fails to accelerate the project? It will be forced to repay up to $3.5 billion to the federal government<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/politics-government\/the-state-worker\/article221711560.html\">Sacramento Bee |\u00a0Rushed construction cost high-speed rail $600 million and delays mount, audit finds<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,3,8,4,26,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2019-issue","category-eminent-domain","category-funding","category-railways","category-regulatory-trend","category-state-auditor","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}