{"id":2634,"date":"2018-03-06T15:51:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T20:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/?p=2634"},"modified":"2018-03-06T15:51:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T20:51:00","slug":"california-bullet-train-cost-surges-by-2-8-billion-worst-case-scenario-has-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/2018\/03\/06\/california-bullet-train-cost-surges-by-2-8-billion-worst-case-scenario-has-happened\/","title":{"rendered":"California Bullet Train Cost Surges by $2.8 billion: &#8216;Worst-case Scenario Has Happened&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The estimated cost of building 119 miles of bullet train track in the Central Valley has jumped to $10.6 billion, an increase of $2.8 billion from the current budget and up from about $6 billion originally.<\/p>\n<p>The new calculation takes into account a number of intractable problems encountered by the state rail agency. It raises profoundly difficult questions about how the state will complete what is considered the nation&#8217;s largest infrastructure project with the existing funding sources.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/california\/la-me-bullet-train-cost-overrun-20180116-story.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The estimated cost of building 119 miles of bullet train track in the Central Valley has jumped to $10.6 billion, an increase of $2.8 billion from the current budget and up from about $6 billion originally. The new calculation takes into account a number of intractable problems encountered by the state rail agency. It raises [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2635,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634\/revisions\/2635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}