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California’s High Speed Rail costs balloon again to $128 billion

Archinect

The price tag for the rail system has risen to $128 billion, according to a California High Speed Rail Authority project update report — a nearly 22% uptick from the previous figure of $105 billion from last year and a far cry from the $33 billion cost voters approved in 2008.

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The Age Of The Mega-Eco Project

Landscape Architecture Magazine

For nearly a century, a new breed of megaproject has gone unrecognized, and it is now proliferating. The term megaproject first appeared in academic literature in the 1970s to describe major postwar projects such as dams, power plants, airports, factories, tunnels, stadiums, highways, railroads, and large tracts of housing.

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