California Bullet Train Bogged Down in Delays, Cost Overruns
California voters who approved the project in 2008 were told at the time it would cost roughly $33 billion. Now, the estimate is as much as $128 billion.

A high-speed rail project launched in California during the Clinton administration and initially scheduled to be operational by 2020 is still as much as a decade away from completion and has already cost at least three times as much as initially envisioned.
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