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California voters and their legislators have approved the high speed rail project and construction will begin this summer. But that isn’t stopping Congressional Republicans, led by Central Valley representatives Jeff Denham and Kevin McCarthy, from trying to kill the project, as Dan Walters explains: Denham questioned why California had not sought approval of the project [...]
On the San Mateo County peninsula, a small but determined group of people were able to mobilize NIMBY attitudes to force the California High Speed Rail Authority to postpone plans to fully upgrade the Caltrain corridor to accommodate high speed rail service. Now they’re trying to do the same in Southern California, and they’ve enlisted [...]
Ralph Vartabedian has been rather quiet on the high speed rail beat for the Los Angeles Times since the State Senate voted to release the voter-approved bond funds for construction back in July. His usual and frequent attacks on the project have almost totally ceased. I’m sure that’s just a mere coincidence. But Vartabedian is [...]
After threatening to file a lawsuit to stop the California High Speed Rail Authority from studying a possible Grapevine/I-5 alignment, the City of Palmdale this week carried out the threat, suing the California High Speed Rail Authority in federal court: The city’s federal lawsuit argues that the rail authority may not use federal grants and [...]
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