The California High Speed Rail Proposal: A Due Diligence Report

September 19, 2008

A just-released study, The California High Speed Rail Proposal: A Due Diligence Report by transportation experts Wendell Cox and Joseph Vranich, documents the actual costs of the project, which are greatly at odds with the estimates put out by promoters of Proposition 1A. The study, jointly sponsored by the Reason Foundation, Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Foundation and Citizens Against Government Waste, can be viewed here.

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Filed Under: Studies and Reports

Tags: California, Research, High Speed Rail

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