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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, [...]
The Kings County Board of Supervisors apparently wants to vote themselves out of the 21st century: After months of frustration dealing with plans proposed by the California High-Speed Rail Authority, county supervisors said Tuesday they are ready to wash their hands of the whole project. Board members said no high-speed rail route through Kings County [...]
Interesting news out of the California High Speed Rail Authority today, where they announced they would issue a revised Draft EIR in spring 2012 that would include study of the Hanford West bypass option, which had been scrapped last summer: In response to stakeholder, agency, and public feedback on the high-speed train alignment that bypasses [...]
In news that is neither shocking nor surprising, the Fresno Bee/California Watch report that Kings County HSR critics are determined to reroute the project even if they have to go to court to do it: Even if state officials can scrape together the billions of dollars needed to fund California’s ambitious high-speed rail plans, lawsuits [...]
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