Transportation Secretary Axes Additional Funds for California High-Speed Rail Projects

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has canceled $175 million from California’s high-speed rail project, a month after the agency withdrew $4 billion in federal grants to the project.
The move cuts funding for four projects related to the high-speed rail, including the Le Grand Overcrossing on the Merced Extension ($89.6 million), the Southern San Jose Grade Separations ($7.5 million), the final design for track and rail systems at the Transbay Terminal ($24.7 million), and the Madera High-Speed Rail Station ($54.5 million).
Duffy’s department cited the $15 billion expended and projections ballooning to $135 billion, despite that not a single mile of operational high-speed track exists.
“In 20 years, California has not been able to lay a single track of high-speed rail,” Duffy said in a statement on Aug. 26. “The waste ends here. As of today, the American people are done investing in California’s failed experiment.”…