High-speed train line plan may be derailed

Schwarzenegger moves to slash funding for the state's $40-billion system, citing other transportation needs.

By Marc Lifsher, Los Angeles Times

For more than a decade, policymakers have debated, studied and scoped out a high-speed rail line that would whisk travelers between downtown Los Angeles and San Francisco in 2 1/2 hours.

But, this year, the $40-billion dream of building a Japanese- or European-style bullet train through the Central Valley may find itself stopped in its tracks.

Even as state lawmakers visited France earlier this month for a glimpse of a passenger train as it set a world rail speed record of 357 mph, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was applying the brakes to California's plan for a high-speed system.

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Posted by pichu at April 29, 2007 11:17 PM