{"id":334,"date":"2015-10-30T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/10\/30\/the-other-high-speed-rail-missed-deadlines-over-budget-5-warning-signs\/"},"modified":"2015-10-30T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T02:00:00","slug":"the-other-high-speed-rail-missed-deadlines-over-budget-5-warning-signs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/the-other-high-speed-rail-missed-deadlines-over-budget-5-warning-signs\/","title":{"rendered":"The Other High Speed Rail. Missed Deadlines. Over Budget. 5 Warning Signs."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Times in a special piece dove deep into the California high speed rail project and found it likely over budget &amp; late.<\/p>\n<p>5 reasons why:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>No Settled Route.\u00a0<\/strong>The deadline for phase 1 is 2022, and there is no set route throught the mountains. To connect L.A. and S.F. via high speed rail will require 36 miles of tunnels into the mountains.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rising Costs.<\/strong>\u00a0The 1st phase, according to a confidential 2013 report, is 31\u00a0% over budget. The state has not used the state&#8217;s main project manager report for the project, and disreagrded the cost in its 2014 high speed rail plan.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Voters approved bonds for a $33 billion project.<\/strong>\u00a0The estimated cost is at least $68 billion.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Litigation delays<\/strong>. Eminent domain that hits the courts takes time and casues project risk.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Permit delays.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In 2012, the cost estimate for the project had risen to $98 billion. The cost estimate was trimmed to $68 billion by elimating service from LA to Anaheim and from SF to San Jose.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/california\/la-me-bullet-train-cost-final-20151025-story.html\">LA Times | Special Report\u00a0$68-billion California bullet train project likely to overshoot budget and deadline targets<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Times in a special piece dove deep into the California high speed rail project and found it likely over budget &amp; late.<\/p>\n<p>5 reasons why:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>No Settled Route.\u00a0<\/strong>The deadline for phase 1 is 2022, and there is no set route throught the mountains. To connect L.A. and S.F. via high speed rail will require 36 miles of tunnels into the mountains.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rising Costs.<\/strong>\u00a0The 1st phase, according to a confidential 2013 report, is 31\u00a0% over budget. The state has not used the state&#8217;s main project&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,19,10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eminent-domain","category-funding","category-legal-trend","category-legislative-trend","category-railways","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","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=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}