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With many of the political battles that consumed 2012 now behind us, 2013 is shaping up to be a great year for high speed rail in California – headlined by the likelihood that construction will begin sometime this year. Here are some of the things that we’ll be watching closely here in 2013: • Central [...]
Ralph Vartabedian has been rather quiet on the high speed rail beat for the Los Angeles Times since the State Senate voted to release the voter-approved bond funds for construction back in July. His usual and frequent attacks on the project have almost totally ceased. I’m sure that’s just a mere coincidence. But Vartabedian is [...]
So reports Tim Sheehan at the Fresno Bee: Authority CEO Jeffrey Morales said Tuesday that questions from five consortiums of building firms have prompted the authority to set Jan. 18 as the new date by which bids must be submitted for a 28-mile stretch of the high-speed rail line from Avenue 17, northeast of Madera, [...]
The Fresno Bee’s Tim Sheehan has an excellent article providing an overview of the HSR construction timeline for the Fresno to Merced segment – and the ways that lawsuits could delay that timeline enough to jeopardize the federal funding. Which is the entire point of those lawsuits. In its legal battle arguing that an injunction [...]
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