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Last December, Quentin Kopp’s term on the California High Speed Rail Authority board expired. And as the San Mateo County Daily Journal reports, Kopp decided that he didn’t want to stay on the board: Quentin Kopp’s term on the board expired in December and he asked Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, not to [...]
According to former California High Speed Rail Authority board member Rod Diridon, speaking before the Belmont City Council yesterday afternoon, the San Francisco to San José draft EIR could be further delayed by as much as a year: Staff members are expected to recommend to the high-speed rail board next week that the report be [...]
It’s more than just idle speculation that Governor Jerry Brown might reappoint Rod Diridon to the CHSRA board soon after Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger chose to not reappoint him. Palo Alto Online has the interesting and potentially important backstory on Diridon’s ties to Brown: Given a longtime caveat that in politics nothing is real until it [...]
In the wake of Thursday’s decision by the California High Speed Rail Authority board to start HSR construction on a route connecting Fresno to Hanford, the Merced Sun-Star today editorializes that the project still deserves support from the Merced community. They quoted Assemblymember Cathleen Galgiani, a leader on high speed rail here in California, who [...]
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