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California Bullet Train - Legislation 2008
Backers push bullet-train measure as a dramatic change in California transportation
By Eric Bailey, Los Angeles Times
Promoters of Proposition 1A boast that the $45-billion project, featuring sleek trains reaching 220 mph, would be the nation's most ambitious public works effort since completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869.
Foes say it would be a fiscal black hole that wouldn't deliver as promised.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
The head part of a new model's Shinkansen, or bullet train is transported through a street in Fukuoka, southern Japan. Funding for a similar type train will be on the Proposition 1A ballot on Nov. 4.