California High-Speed Rail Authority

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Project sponsor and builder; sole entity responsible for delivering the system

California voters approved a bullet train in 2008 with a $33 billion price tag and promised to whisk passengers from San Francisco to Los Angeles by 2020. Eighteen years later, no train has run, the price tag has climbed to roughly $231 billion, and the first segment—Merced to Bakersfield in the Central Valley—won't carry passengers until 2033.

Updated May 31