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Why California's high speed rail was always going to blow out

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Media Coverage

Title

Why California's high speed rail was always going to blow out

Media type

Web

Media name

NPR

Date

2024-06-06

Producer

Darian Woods, Adrian Ma, Cooper Katz McKim, Kate Concannon

Persons

  • Bent Flyvbjerg(Research cited)

Description

99.5 percent of megaprojects are either over time, over budget or have lower benefits than expected. What's going wrong? Today, we look at case studies from California's high speed rail project to the Sydney Opera House to consider the do's and don'ts of ambitious projects...