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Late last month Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa co-authored an op-ed in the Sacramento Bee calling on the legislature to fund high speed rail this year. Last week Mayor Villaraigosa was joined by the Los Angeles City Council, which passed a resolution authored by Councilmember Tom LaBonge calling for the legislature to fund and begin [...]
Although high speed rail opponents in Sacramento have been trying to delay the legislature’s approval of spending Prop 1A bond funds to begin construction of the high speed rail project, the Obama Administration today made it clear that delay would jeopardize federal funding: U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood warned the California Legislature today that the [...]
As a passenger rail advocate, I want to see passenger rail serve as many places in California as possible. That includes Kings County. I continue to be utterly baffled by local officials’ opposition to a high speed rail stop for Hanford/Visalia, as it would do wonders for the region’s economy by connecting it to jobs [...]
Well, at least there’s one county board of supervisors in the San Joaquin Valley that still cares about creating jobs and linking their population to the job engines of the coasts: Fresno County supervisors this morning reiterated their support for California’s high-speed rail project despite a strong show of disapproval from the Tea Party. After [...]
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