California High-Speed Rail Chief Resigns After $600,000 Consultant Travel Misuse Finding
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Updated · The New York Times · Oct 29
California High-Speed Rail Chief Resigns After $600,000 Consultant Travel Misuse Finding
3 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Oct 29
Summary
Ian Choudri abruptly resigned as chief executive of California’s High-Speed Rail Authority after a state report found nearly $600,000 was misused to cover consultant travel.
Thursday’s board announcement deepens turmoil at an agency already under scrutiny for spending, engineering problems and repeated delays on the long-troubled bullet train project.
Choudri, appointed in 2024, had overseen construction of the line intended to link Northern and Southern California.
119 miles of the roughly 500-mile system have broken ground so far, and the project still has not begun train service nearly two decades after voters approved it.