$10-billion bullet train is approved.

By Eric Bailey and Michael Rothfeld
7:42 PM PST, November 5, 2008
Reporting from Sacramento --

Voters may have banned same-sex marriage, but they rejected a measure that would have required parents to be notified before a girl could obtain an abortion. And they turned down several big-ticket funding initiatives while backing the most expensive of them, a nearly $10-billion bond to build a bullet train.

# 1A: High-speed rail  Yes 52.1%  No 47.9%