On 12-17-2019 - 20:01 George Andrews Wrote: [www.altamontpress.com]
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> "The line was supposed to be completed in 2017 and cost $6 Billion. Now the price tag is $10.6 Billion."
> Is that figure for the entire line ??? Or more likely about 1 MILE ?!?

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Those $6B and $10.6B amounts seem to show up in news articles from early 2018. Here are a couple of examples:

"The update comes on the heels of news that the first 119-mile segment under construction — between Madera and a station north of Bakersfield — is forecast to cost $10.6 billion, up from an initial estimate of $6 billion, due to a “worst case” combination of construction delays and higher-than-anticipated land acquisition costs. That segment is still on track to be completed by 2022, according to the report." [www.mercurynews.com] PUBLISHED: March 9, 2018 at 11:15 am | UPDATED: March 12, 2018 at 3:05 am

"But that plan has been crushed by the acknowledgment Tuesday that the cost of building just 119 miles of rail between the farm towns of Madera and Wasco has soared from about $6 billion to $10.6 billion, siphoning off money that the authority had planned to allocate to the ultimate goal of connecting Los Angeles and San Francisco." [ktla.com] Posted 4:45 PM, January 21, 2018, by Los Angeles Times

Search: [California High Speed Rail Authority work is behind schedule, with only a third of bridges, viaducts and other structures under construction. The line was supposed to be finished in 2017 and cost $6 billion. Now the price tag is $10.6 billion.]: [www.google.com].