Federal payments for that high speed rail are dead. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-california-rail/us-cancels-929-million-in-california-high-speed-rail-funds-after-appeal-rejected-idUSKCN1SM2F9.
The state was warned before, but now action has been taken.
California was already showing signs of possibly giving up project themselves but now they can blame it on the Feds. Doesn't matter...no reason to throw good money after bad.
My reply:
There was not much news after the February announcement that the "bullet train was dead / not dead." I did find this from about a week ago: https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-bullet-train-trump-dispute-20190508-story.html.I had not yet read the Reuters story that the reader linked.
From that link: the Feds and the state of California are no longer talking to each other with regard to the bullet train.
- the Feds are not answering phone calls from California regarding the bullet train -- literally not answering phone calls
- the Feds are not acting on federal permits, environmental statements
- the project will simply die on the vine unless the governor of California wants to double down on this project
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