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In a move that should not surprise anybody at all, several Peninsula lawyers are helping Kings County file a rather silly lawsuit against the high speed rail project: Kings County filed a lawsuit Monday against the California High Speed Rail Authority that calls for a permanent injunction against distributing funds from Prop 1A to the [...]
A well-informed population is essential to the proper functioning of a democratic society. Unfortunately, if all you read this week regarding Judge Michael Kenny’s latest decision in the Atherton cases was Mike Rosenberg’s Mercury News article, you would be significantly ill-informed about what the ruling actually held and what it actually means for the California [...]
So claims a report in the Bakersfield Californian: Building a high-speed train route over the Grapevine instead of through the Antelope Valley could save up to $4 billion, according to a July progress report released Wednesday. A conceptual study identified more than one feasible alignment over the mountain pass, prompting engineers on the project to [...]
In news that is neither shocking nor surprising, the Fresno Bee/California Watch report that Kings County HSR critics are determined to reroute the project even if they have to go to court to do it: Even if state officials can scrape together the billions of dollars needed to fund California’s ambitious high-speed rail plans, lawsuits [...]
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