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Today the US Department of Transportation put another $928 million into the hands of the California high speed rail project and out of the reach of House Republicans: U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today awarded a $928.6 million grant to the California High-Speed Rail Authority for initial construction of California High-Speed Rail. Construction will begin [...]
(See update below) It’s common for Cabinet secretaries to leave a presidential administration after the first term, so Ray LaHood’s announcement today that he will leave his post as Transportation Secretary in 2013 should not be a surprise. But that doesn’t make it any easier. Many transportation advocates were skeptical, to put it mildly, in [...]
Yesterday US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood met with Governor Jerry Brown in Oakland where they had a “long discussion” about the high speed rail project. San Francisco Chronicle reporter Michael Cabanatuan caught up with LaHood after the event, filing this story and, even better, shooting this video interview: Transcript: There’s a lot of support for [...]
Two quick things first before getting to the headline: Californians For High Speed Rail Executive Director Daniel Krause has an op-ed in today’s Sacramento Bee pushing back against the Legislative Analyst’s Office’s flawed report attacking HSR. Go read it! Second, the Sac Bee had an excellent editorial defending the project over the weekend, including a [...]
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