{"id":1800,"date":"2020-06-25T00:08:42","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T00:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/?p=1800"},"modified":"2020-06-26T04:20:37","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T04:20:37","slug":"covid-status-of-california-high-speed-rail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/covid-status-of-california-high-speed-rail\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID Status of California High Speed Rail"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We know the cost estimates continue to rise, besides COVID, what else happened this year to impact California&#8217;s high speed rail project? The California Assembly adopted a resolution to delay the contract.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What happened this week? The Board of the High Speed Rail Authority, for the first time, did not approve the 2020 business plan <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The cost estimate for the California High Speed Rail system? $80 billion<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What did the Chair of the Assembly Transportation Committee say?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\u201cI have personally lost all confidence in this group to develop and deliver what they promise,\u201d <\/li><li>\u201cFrom inconsistent cost estimates to impossible program schedules, they provide fictional ridership expectations and exaggerated benefits.\u201d<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-06-24\/california-high-speed-rail-delays-business-plan-after-assembly-action\">Los Angeles Times | California high-speed rail board delays key finance plan after lawmakers push back<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We know the cost estimates continue to rise, besides COVID, what else happened this year to impact California&#8217;s high speed rail project? The California Assembly adopted a resolution to delay the contract. What happened this week? The Board of the High Speed Rail Authority, for the first time, did not approve the 2020 business plan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1800"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1811,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions\/1811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}