Wednesday, January 08, 2014

High-Speed Train in California Is Caught in a Political Storm

The New York Times reports:
Gov. Jerry Brown of California is riding into an election year on a wave of popularity and an upturn in the state’s fortunes. But a project that has become a personal crusade for him over the past two years — a 520-mile high-speed train line from Los Angeles to San Francisco — is in trouble, reeling from a court ruling that undermined its financing, and from slipping public support and opponents’ rising calls to shut it down.
One of the biggest scams going today in America.