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The California High Speed Rail Authority board voted unanimously today to proceed with offering the contract to build the first section of the high speed rail project to the winning bid – Tutor Perini: State bullet train leaders on Thursday approved the start of construction for California’s $69 billion high-speed rail line, choosing the cheapest [...]

Jun 6th, 2013 | Filed under Uncategorized

The California High Speed Rail Authority board will vote on the construction contract for the initial segment near Fresno later this week: Officially, the board will vote on whether to authorize the rail authority’s CEO, Jeffrey Morales, to finalize negotiations and execute a contract with the Tutor Perini/Zachry/Parsons team. “We’ll still have to dot the [...]

Jun 4th, 2013 | Filed under Uncategorized

Last week Judge Michael Kenny heard arguments in the last lawsuit against the high speed rail project. I’ll get to those in a minute, but for most HSR advocates, the main piece of news that came out of the hearing was that groundbreaking will likely be delayed past July: during Friday’s testimony, rail officials admitted [...]

Jun 3rd, 2013 | Filed under Uncategorized

The last remaining lawsuit attempting to stop the California high speed rail project will be heard on May 31 by Judge Michael Kenny in Sacramento Superior Court as the state dropped a request to consolidate all lawsuits regarding the validity of the current project plan under Prop 1A: State officials on Thursday agreed to drop [...]

May 16th, 2013 | Filed under Uncategorized