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Tim Sheehan at the Fresno Bee reports that there are five consortiums on the short list to start building high speed rail in the Central Valley: Van Ark said the companies have formed into five teams that the authority has qualified to compete for a contract on a stretch of the line through Fresno, from [...]
Under the terms of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 – otherwise known as “the stimulus” – contracts for the $8 billion in high speed rail funding included in that package have to be signed by September 30, 2012. Back in the spring of 2009 when the stimulus bill was passed, that seemed [...]
Kings County leaders may have decided they’re happy with a 14.6% unemployment rate, opposing high speed rail and the long-term economic benefits it will bring to their county. But next door in Tulare County, leaders understand the benefits that high speed rail will bring – and they want in: Watching their neighbor’s increasingly warlike stance, [...]
You might not know it from the TV and newspaper reports, but the California High Speed Rail project is actually saving money the closer it gets to construction. Take, for example, today’s vote by the California High Speed Rail Authority to save at least $500 million – and perhaps as much as $1 billion – [...]
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