If you thought the CAHSR project was floundering, it's not alone:
*check out the "related articles" section adjacent, it serves as a snapshot timeline of the delays encountered.
Procurement of Brazil’s beleaguered Rio de Janeiro to Sao Paulo high speed rail line has been hampered by a new delay, it emerged last week.http://www.nce.co.uk/news/transport/pro ... tentID=204" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Brazil transport minister César Borges said the government remained committed to the country’s first high speed line despite admitting that the first phase of procurement was to be delayed by a year.
The delay is the latest to hit the scheme. Brazil’s National Transportation Agency reopened bidding last December on the £13bn line after it failed to attract firms to bid on the complicated contract structure.
*check out the "related articles" section adjacent, it serves as a snapshot timeline of the delays encountered.