By Jessica Calefati and Tracy Seipel in the San Jose Mercury News

February 18, 2016

SACRAMENTO — A day after Silicon Valley leaders praised the state’s new plan to lay the first stretch of bullet train track between San Jose and the Central Valley by 2025, critics of the project smelled blood in the water.

They said the California High-Speed Rail Authority’s new construction scheme left them with new questions and even more doubts about the state’s chances of ever completing the $64 billion project.

The revised plan is already upsetting some South Bay and Peninsula residents and threatening to undermine the train’s political support among Southern California politicians who expected construction to begin in their region. In addition, the authority concedes that several lawsuits seeking to kill the project are unresolved and that a myriad of environmental clearances are needed before construction is ramped up.

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