California punts on high-speed rail plan as furor grows over new $231B price tag
The state’s High-Speed Rail Authority board punted a vote Wednesday on its long-awaited business plan — after lawmakers and budget hawks torched it as incomplete, opaque and possibly illegal.
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Politics California punts on high-speed rail plan as furor grows over new $231B price tag By Josh Koehn Published April 29, 2026, 7:23 p.m. ET California’s bullet train can’t catch a break. The state’s High-Speed Rail Authority board punted a vote Wednesday on its long-awaited business plan — after it was revealed that the project’s cost had ballooned to a staggering $231 billion. Lawmakers and budget hawks have ripped the Los Angeles-to-San Francisco train project as incomplete, opaque and possibly illegal, with the authority moving to delay a vote until next month. 3 This rendering of high-speed rail in California has been called a fantasy compared to where the project currently sits.
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