Ian Choudri, chief executive for California’s High-Speed Rail Authority, abruptly resigned on Wednesday after state investigators questioned spending.
\n\nChoudri’s abrupt resignation comes roughly two decades after California enacted the high-speed rail project, which has increasingly faced criticism for rising costs with little to no results. The proposed bullet train would connect northern and southern California in a matter of hours ,similar to Europe’s TGV.
\n\n“The executive, Ian Choudri, who was appointed in 2024, had been responsible for overseeing the construction of a high-speed bullet train that would take riders between the southern and northern parts of the state, per the New York Times.
\n\n“But six years after officials initially estimated it would be complete, crews have so far broken ground on one 119-mile section of the roughly 500 miles of planned rail, and the original plans have been scaled back amid chronic delays and cost overruns that plunged the project into limbo,” it added.
\n\nChoudri will be replaced by Joe Stephenshaw, who previously led the state Department of Finance after working as a policy analyst in the state legislature. Choudri said in a memo that he resigned to focus on “important personal and family priorities.”
\n\n“This has not been an…
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