High-Speed Rail: Could It Lose Federal Funding? - Los Angeles Local News, Weather, and Traffic

We've been covering the controversy over California's multi-billion dollar bullet train project. Now we've learned that delays may be putting the entire project in jeopardy of losing its federal funding.

We've now obtained court papers quoting high-speed rail authority's top people saying they are at risk of missing a major federal construction deadline. And if they miss that deadline, California taxpayers could find themselves having to pay back billions.