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Tag: High Speed Rail

CA High-Speed Rail Authority Awards $35 Million Stations Design Contract

October 21, 2022   11:47 amOctober 21, 2022   2:19 pm
The California High-Speed Rail Authority Board of Directors approved a $35 million design and support services contract for four Central Valley stations on Thursday to Foster + Partners and Arup (F+P Arup), inflating the $113 billion high-speed rail budget even...
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California High-Speed Rail Board Approves Construction of Lines into Bakersfield, Merced

August 18, 2022   2:30 amAugust 17, 2022   9:02 pm
The California High-Speed Rail Authority Board of Directors announced on Wednesday that they approved the  continued construction of the network into both Merced and Bakersfield. Originally estimated to cost $33 billion in 2008, costs of the high speed rail system...
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What Else California Could Have Done With the High-Speed Rail Funds

July 25, 2022   2:50 amJuly 24, 2022   7:39 pm
First things first, let’s set some parameters for this article. One – California’s High Speed Rail network is not going to be built. At this point, that’s a given. Two – Even it were to be built and managed to hit...
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California’s Electric High Speed Rail: No Power, No Money, No ‘High Speed’

July 22, 2022   2:50 amJuly 23, 2022   4:54 pm
“If it is built, California’s High-Speed Rail would be the largest public works project in state history. That fact alone appears be intoxicating to state officials, in a perpetual quest to have California be the first state to do anything,”...
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The Abundance Choice, Part 5: California’s Fractured Farmers

May 20, 2022   2:30 amMay 19, 2022   9:21 pm
“We cannot support your initiative if you include the Delta Tunnel as an eligible project. And to be clear, we also cannot support your initiative if you do not include the Delta Tunnel as an eligible project.” This statement, which...
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SEIU Leader Charged With Fraud While Campaign Cash Gave Speaker Nuñez ‘Rich Travel Style’

October 14, 2021   8:16 am
Alma Hernández, the Executive Director for Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the largest labor union in California resigned after she and her husband, Jose Moscoso, were charged by California Attorney General Rob Bonta on numerous embezzlement and tax fraud charges,...
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What the Recall Candidates are Saying About Infrastructure

August 30, 2021   2:31 amSeptember 1, 2021   11:41 am
There is a saying in California politics (popularized by Willie Brown) that, when it comes to big projects, one should just “start digging a hole and make it so big, there’s no alternative to coming up with the money to...
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