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    Back to Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Whither High-Speed Rail?

    The California High-Speed Rail Authority still promises a bullet train that will take a little more than two and a half hours to run between L.A. and San Francisco. But funds for the $68 billion project are proving hard to come by .

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    By Madeleine Brand • Oct 27, 2015 • 1 min read

    The California High-Speed Rail Authority still promises a bullet train that will take a little more than two and a half hours to run between L.A. and San Francisco. But funds for the $68 billion project are proving hard to come by. Public support is down, there’s a lot of opposition from homeowners and landowners along the proposed route, and the project is at least two years behind schedule.

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    Police in Schools, A Mobile Opera, and Whither High-Speed Rail?
    1. 0:00Police in Schools
    2. 10:15Black Girls Suspended More Often
    3. 19:28Ben Carson and the Evangelicals
    4. 28:05Hopscotch, the Opera
    5. 41:00Whither High-Speed Rail?You’re reading this
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      Madeleine Brand

      Host, 'Press Play'

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      Matt Holzman

      Producer, 'The Document'

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      Anna Scott

      Former KCRW Housing and Homelessness Reporter

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      Jolie Myers

      Managing Producer, 'Press Play'

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      Ralph Vartabedian

      Los Angeles Times

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      Richard Katz

      former California High-Speed Rail Authority board member

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    The full episode

    5 of 5
    Police in Schools, A Mobile Opera, and Whither High-Speed Rail?
    1. 0:00Police in Schools
    2. 10:15Black Girls Suspended More Often
    3. 19:28Ben Carson and the Evangelicals
    4. 28:05Hopscotch, the Opera
    5. 41:00Whither High-Speed Rail?You’re reading this
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