The total target budget for all segments is now around $64 billion, a number that the government authorities last came up with almost two years ago.

The revised total budget for this segment is now $10.6 billion, up from $6 billion when the plan was originally conceived. This week, the Los Angeles Times reported that the high-speed rail project has increased in cost by $2.8 billion for the Central Valley portion of the route. The delays are only one part of the problem - the finances are another. Given that environmental reviews aren’t even slated to come in until 2020, it seems hard to believe that the route will maintain its current schedule. That’s roughly 17 years start to finish, or older than the ages of Facebook (14 years) and the iPhone (10 years) are right now. The train, first approved in a bond authorized by voters in 2008, is expected to have its first passengers in 2025 - three years after the original target of 2022.

Let’s take the most prominent example, which is the bullet train connecting southern to northern California. Then, there is the “innovation” world of California’s infrastructure. Hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs, engineers, and product managers are building these futures every day, often on shoestring budgets all in the hope of seeing their solution come to fruition. For the readers of TechCrunch, there is the familiar excitement of the startup world, with startups working on longevity and age extension, rockets to Mars, and cars that drive themselves.

California is home to two very different innovation worlds.

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