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The latest Business Plan for the California high speed rail project is due to be released in October, and there’s a lot riding on it. Many legislators have declared that the Plan has to show a viable path forward for the project, particularly its financing, or else they might be interested in pulling the plug. [...]
Today the Assembly Appropriations Committee heard a number of bills sent to them by the State Senate, including Senator Alan Lowenthal’s SB 517. The bill is Lowenthal’s attack on the HSR project, and would fire the current California High Speed Rail Authority board while replacing it with a board that would likely be less supportive [...]
Yesterday the Assembly voted to approve Assemblymember Cathleen Galgiani’s bill to reform the high speed rail project. AB 145 was approved by a 50-16 vote. The bill would preserve the California High Speed Rail Authority, but its role would become very different. It would become an advisory body within the Department of High Speed Trains, [...]
This news should come as no surprise – a bill by Assemblymember Diane Harkey to defund the high speed rail project died in the Assembly this week: The California Assembly Transportation Committee has rejected a proposal by an Orange County Republican that would have blocked much of the planned state debt financing for the high-speed [...]
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