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The California High Speed Rail Authority will discuss a draft response to the flawed State Auditor’s report at their board meeting this Thursday. One element of their response deals with the Auditor’s nonsense claim that the CHSRA’s funding plan is too risky. Mike Rosenberg wrote a very good article on that aspect late on Friday [...]
Although we had expected the question of who gets the HSR stimulus to be settled by the FRA when the awards were made last month, we now know that was just the start of an ongoing process to get those funds translated into steel in the ground. California has either $1.825 billion or $2.25 billion [...]
A few items for the weekend, many of them updates from previous items we wrote about during the week: The San José Diridon HSR tunnel lives, as Rod Diridon responds to San José Mayor Chuck Reed’s letter that the CHSRA will continue to study the underground station and tunnel, although it is a “longshot.” This [...]
That’s according to Henry Cord and Jean Dresden’s op-ed in today’s Mercury News: High-speed rail bureaucrats want to deny San Jose an underground train option, instead proposing tracks and station structures as high as nine stories towering over our community…. City leaders worked hard to persuade high-speed rail powers to route the rail through San [...]
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