Eye-popping price tag for detour around Cesar Chavez gravesite adds to California high-speed rail humiliation

Source: New York Post

California’s soaring cost for its dragged-out high-speed rail construction was inflated by another recent political embarrassment for the state: labor icon Cesar Chavez. Calls are growing for California’s high-speed rail to be abandoned completely after revelations this week that the estimated cost of completing the fantasy train project has ballooned to a staggering $231 billion. 3 A virtual rendering of the California High-Speed Rail project.