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Hearing highlights doubts about CA high-speed rail
Author: Jon
Date: 12-15-2011 - 14:14

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Hearing highlights doubts about California high-speed rail


By Michael Doyle | McClatchy Newspapers
Posted on Thursday, December 15, 2011
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WASHINGTON — California's ambitious high-speed rail program re-ignited high-level skirmishing Thursday that crosses party lines and shows every sign of extending into the foreseeable future.

Taken together, the sometimes combative rhetoric at a House committee hearing seemed to change no minds but did underscore the political barriers complicating California's high-speed rail program, now estimated to cost $98.5 billion over 20 years.

"The California project appears to be a disaster," said Rep. John Mica, R-Fla., chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. "The project seems to be imploding."

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