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Yesterday the Public Policy Institute of California released its latest poll of Californians on a range of issues, including the high speed rail project. Overall, the numbers show the public still continues to support the project, although the constant drip-drip-drip of attacks and misleading articles on the project are probably having an impact, as is [...]
This week the Legislative Analyst’s Office issued its fiscal analysis of a proposed ballot initiative to prevent further issuance of high speed rail bonds authorized by voters when they passed Prop 1A in 2008. They were asked to do the fiscal analysis of the potential impact of the initiative before it goes out for circulation, [...]
State Senator Alan Lowenthal is running for Congress in an open seat – California’s 47th district. The seat is centered on Long Beach and includes some pieces of Orange County, which was why Lowenthal spoke last Friday at the luncheon of the Democratic Foundation of Orange County. Lowenthal has made a name for himself as [...]
It’s becoming increasingly clear that part of the upcoming revision to the 2012 Business Plan will include more money from Prop 1A for urban rail upgrades. Earlier we learned that the California High Speed Rail Authority and the Southern California Association of Governments had agreed on a proposal to fund rail upgrades in Southern California [...]
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