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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, [...]
Assemblymember Cathleen Galgiani wrote a letter to the Legislative Analyst’s Office last week, and in it she has some tough questions and harsh criticisms for the Office. The LAO, which lost a lot of its credibility with its uninformed attack on the project earlier this month, hasn’t responded yet. But they’ll have to, since Galgiani’s [...]
The Legislative Analyst’s Office clearly hoped that their attack on the California high speed rail project would prove decisive and lead the legislature to follow the disreputable path taken by Wisconsin, Ohio, Florida, and New Jersey in rejecting federal passenger rail funds. That’s not going to happen. Instead, a backlash is growing against the LAO’s [...]
Assemblymember Cathleen Galgiani today called out her fellow Democrat, Senator Joe Simitian, who has emerged this week as a significant threat to the high speed rail project. In a statement released this afternoon she accused Simitian of being the “Great Train Robber” for his apparent effort to take HSR money for Caltrain, risking the HSR [...]
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