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Anti-HSR reporter Tracy Wood has a new article up at Voice of OC reporting that the Orange County Transportation Authority is calling on the California High Speed Rail Authority to move the currently available funds out of the Central Valley and toward the endpoints of the project – i.e. Orange County. After spending much of [...]
See update below for more information on OCTA and ARTIC. It may be 2011, but it’s still not Curt Pringle’s year. After stepping down from the OCTA Board of Directors in order to keep his seat on the California High Speed Rail Authority Board, several remaining board members turned on Pringle’s signature project, the Anaheim [...]
(See below for an update.) I can’t say I’m totally surprised at this news: Los Angeles transportation official Richard Katz is stepping down from the state panel overseeing development of California’s $43-billion high-speed rail system. Katz, who also serves on the boards of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the Metrolink commuter rail [...]
By now it’s become clear that, despite his public claims, Senator Alan Lowenthal is not really a high speed rail supporter. He consistently undermines the project in the press with his misleading and baseless claims that HSR ridership stats “don’t pass the smell test” (a reference to his apparent belief that nobody will ever ride [...]
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