U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has asked for a compliance review of California’s controversial High Speed Rail project.
“We’re going to look at whether the California High Speed Rail Authority has actually complied with the agreements that they’ve signed with the federal government,” he said. “We can’t just say we’re going to give money and then not hold states accountable to how they spend that money.”
Voters first approved $10 billion in bond money in 2008 for a project designed to shuttle riders between San Francisco and Los Angeles in less than three hours. It was slated to cost $33 billion and be finished by 2020. But the project has been beset by funding challenges, cost overruns and delays…