Local leaders react to Trump's criticism of California's High-Speed Rail project

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- President Trump announced Tuesday he volition beryllium investigating California's High-Speed Rail project.

"The bid that's being built betwixt Los Angeles and San Francisco is the worst managed task I deliberation I've ever seen, and I've seen immoderate of the worst," Trump said to the property connected Tuesday.

Critics of the task person said it was acceptable to outgo taxpayers $33 cardinal and beryllium completed 4 years ago, but some the timeline and fund person grown.

"Billions and billions, hundreds of billions of dollars implicit budget," Trump said.

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California Assemblymember David Tangipa agreeing with Trump's probe and proposing AB377, which asks the obstruction authorization to supply a elaborate backing plan.

"We bash person these buildings," Tangipa said. "We cognize that operation is going on. But we request to marque definite that there's a fiscal program for the Fresno information of it."

Henry Perea Sr., who serves connected the project's board, agreed the rail's archetypal projections were wrong.

"If you look backmost 10-15 years, I don't deliberation radical truly had an thought of what it was going to outgo due to the fact that they had not laid retired the full program itself of what it was going to include," Perea said.

He says now, the task could outgo betwixt 100 to 130 cardinal dollars.

"It's intolerable that thing could outgo that overmuch and present it's not adjacent going to San Francisco, and it's not going to Los Angeles," Trump said. "Now it's astatine small places mode distant from San Francisco and mode distant from Los Angeles."

Perea adamant the task volition scope from SF to LA.

"Have we had delays successful the project? Of people we have. We admit that erstwhile you're gathering a task and you're going done an area, sometimes you're going to find things that you didn't cognize were there. For example, there's PG&E powerfulness lines," Perea explained.

Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer sharing akin concerns to Trump, but hoping the task continues.

"It's taken excessively long, it's go acold excessively costly but here's the reality, we request precocious velocity obstruction present successful the vale to link america to link america to the remainder of the California economy," Dyer said.

Despite the setbacks, Perea says the task is "moving on fine."

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