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At today’s board meeting members and staff of the California High Speed Rail Authority addressed aspects of the recent bids for the Central Valley construction segment. CEO Jeff Morales explained the process like this: Jeff Morales, the chief executive officer, said Thursday at the agency’s monthly board meeting that the staff had no requirement to [...]
The anti-HSR folks are all riled up about the process used to evaluate the bids for the Central Valley segment. Ralph Vartabedian and Elizabeth Alexis have teamed up to generate this controversy, as seen in this LA Times article: State high-speed rail officials acknowledged Thursday that they changed their rules for selecting a builder for [...]
Today Governor Jerry Brown filled one of the vacancies on the California High Speed Rail Authority board by appointing Katherine Perez-Estolano, a former professor at the USC School of Policy, Planning and Development who has a very rich background in transportation and sustainable land use issues. She has also served as Executive Director of the [...]
So, this is an interesting legal tactic: The state of California has filed a civil case against everyone — literally, the whole world — seeking to validate $8.6 billion in voter-approved bonds for its $69 billion high-speed rail project. The lawsuit, titled “High-Speed Rail Authority v. All Persons Interested,” is meant as a pre-emptive strike [...]
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