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***See Updates Below*** So after a weekend of frenzied activism to get Arnold to sign AB 3034…the Assembly adjourned for the day without taking action on the bill: With a veto threat looming, lawmakers on Monday missed a deadline to replace November’s $9.9 billion high-speed rail bond ballot measure with a better version. Or did [...]
The Senate Transportation Committee today approved AB 3034 by an 8-4 vote. But as our friend Erik Nelson reports it included some great amendments, including Sen. Leland Yee’s plan to restore the primacy of LA-SF: The committee, at the urging of Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, restored language that restricted use of the $9.95 billion [...]
It’s HSR editorial season, it seems, and the latest entry comes from the Modesto Bee. It’s certainly not the sad joke of an editorial the Contra Costa Times put out, but it still demonstrates many of the common flaws the state media uses to assess the project – particularly an inability to examine the project [...]
Yesterday the Sacramento Bee said “answers are needed before November” on high speed rail. Let’s see what we can do, shall we? But the authority’s preferred route for high-speed rail between the Central Valley and the Bay Area has always been the Pacheco Pass. To win over environmentalist opponents who worry that a new rail [...]
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