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The Federal Railroad Administration this week released $235 million in ARRA (i.e. the “stimulus”) funds for high speed rail planning, and California received $194 million – or 82.5% of the total – for engineering and planning work on our SF to Anaheim project. Here’s an excerpt from the press release the California High Speed Rail [...]
Well, we could see this one coming from a mile away. The Peninsula Cities Consortium, after spending the better part of a year criticizing the HSR project, is now calling for it to be suspended, despite the will of the voters, including at least 60% of Peninsula residents, for the project to go ahead, and [...]
The Legislative Analyst’s Office is asking the CHSRA to explain its reasoning behind asking for the amount of money the governor has proposed in his 2010-11 budget for CHSRA operations. Although this has been reported as the LAO opposing the funding request, the reality is that the LAO wants the Authority to justify the funding, [...]
It’s that time again – first Thursday of the month. And that means the California High Speed Rail Authority is holding its monthly board meeting. You can find the agenda packet here and the live webcast here. Some of the main topics of discussion at today’s meeting: • Appointment of interim executive director and update [...]
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