Eye-popping price tag for detour around Cesar Chavez gravesite adds to California high-speed rail humiliation
About a billion dollars of that cost stems from a reroute around the resting place of Chavez and his wife at the Cesar E. Chavez National Monument in Keene.
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Metro Eye-popping price tag for detour around Cesar Chavez gravesite adds to California high-speed rail humiliation By Titus Wu Published April 29, 2026, 7:35 p.m. ET California’s soaring cost for its dragged-out high-speed rail construction was inflated by another recent political embarrassment for the state: labor icon Cesar Chavez. Calls are growing for California’s high-speed rail to be abandoned completely after revelations this week that the estimated cost of completing the fantasy train project has ballooned to a staggering $231 billion. 3 A virtual rendering of the California High-Speed Rail project. California High-Speed Rail Authority We’ve now learned about a billion dollars of that cost stems from a reroute around the resting place of Chavez and his wife at the Cesar E.
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