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Been dying to comment on the Revised Draft EIR for the Fresno to Bakersfield high speed rail section but worried you might not make the deadline? Never fear, the California High Speed Rail Authority is here to help. They’ve extended the comment period by 30 days to October 19, according to a press release sent [...]
Hanford is still up in arms about potentially losing Amtrak service – a position I continue to find bizarre, since they also oppose the high speed rail project that would bring a lot more riders to their town and give residents more places to travel. The latest news, however, should be encouraging for Hanford Amtrak [...]
The latest tack in Ralph Vartabedian’s ongoing quest to destroy public support for the high speed rail project from the pages of the Los Angeles Times is to claim that it would somehow hurt, not help, environmental quality. This claim is utterly ridiculous, but there it is: The California bullet train is promoted as an [...]
New California High Speed Rail Authority board chairman Dan Richard has been busy in the Central Valley working to repair relationships and rebuild trust, especially with farmers who have been critical of the project: “I’m extremely unhappy with the kind of approaches that have been made to farmers and business people along the potential alignments,” [...]
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