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Last year, as costs began to rise on the Palmdale to Sylmar section of the high speed rail route (due to Army Corps of Engineers requirements that the route hew more closely to State Route 14), the California High Speed Rail Authority announced it would take another look at a Grapevine/Interstate 5 alignment, although it [...]
The San Jose Mercury News editorial board is sure they’ve found a scandal: So here’s a heads-up for staff and public officials at cities, counties and any other government agencies involved in construction projects: If you’re measuring job-years, say job-years. If you want to talk about jobs, then translate your job-year statistics before making public [...]
As part of his proposed 2012-13 budget Governor Jerry Brown is proposing a broad reorganization of state government, consolidating numerous departments into “agencies” – creating savings by reducing employee head counts through the consolidation process. The California High Speed Rail Authority would be affected by this, merged into a new Transportation Agency. The Sacramento Bee [...]
The California High Speed Rail Authority wasted no time in quickly responding to the critical Peer Review Report: CA High Speed Rail Authority Responds to Peer Review Their core conclusions: In recommending against proceeding with the high speed rail development “at this time,” the Report ignores many components of the CHRSA’s recent Draft Business Plan [...]
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