California's high-speed rail project sparks residents fears

The Sacramento Bee reports:

Voters warmly embraced Proposition 1A and the idea of bringing a bullet train system to the traffic-choked Golden State last November.

But since the election, life for the California High-Speed Rail Authority has been anything but easy.

Ten months later, with the glow of the initiative's remarkable electoral success beginning to fade, authority board members and staff are finding the actual process of preparing to build the $40 billion, 800-mile system is far more difficult than selling the dream of the sleek, fast trains.

With $9.9 billion in bond sales authorized by voters, the authority has suffered fits and starts as it begins to identify and study the paths where the trains will actually run.

Heh.