Ghost Train | Sunday on 60 Minutes
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Californians approved a $33 billion high-speed rail project in 2008 to connect Los Angeles and San Francisco by 2020, but it has failed, delivering only an unfinished line between Bakersfield and Merced. The video questions why 20 other countries succeeded in building high-speed rail while America has not, amid audience laughter at the stark admission that "failure is always an option."
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Californians approved a $33 billion high-speed train project to connect Los Angeles to San Francisco by 2020. Instead, the project resulted in an unfinished line connecting Bakersfield and Merced.
Why have 20 other countries managed to build high-speed rail while America hasn't?
We've heard people saying what happened in the past is the past. Failure is not an option. Failure is always an option.
[laughter]
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