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Tim Sheehan at the Fresno Bee reports that there are five consortiums on the short list to start building high speed rail in the Central Valley: Van Ark said the companies have formed into five teams that the authority has qualified to compete for a contract on a stretch of the line through Fresno, from [...]
You can tell a lot about the inherent biases and assumptions of the state’s media by their opinion columnists. Most of them are deeply conservative people. I don’t mean that in an ideological sense, but in an attitudinal sense. They are usually not interested at all in change, and instead look on it skeptically. This [...]
Well this is some of the clever, innovative thinking that we expect from Governor Jerry Brown: on ABC7 in Los Angeles this morning, Gov. Brown proposed funding high speed rail through cap-and-trade fees. See the video below (HSR section begins at 3:00): “Phase 1, I’m trying to redesign it in a way that in and [...]
On Thursday I discussed remarks made by CHSRA Board Chair Dan Richard about the upcoming revision to the Business Plan, remarks that suggested urban areas were going to play a greater role than earlier thought. While I never assumed Richard was suggesting that the Authority was going to abandon the Central Valley Initial Construction Segment, [...]
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