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Tag: Proposition 1A

High Stealth Rail: Where Did the Rest of It Go?

March 31, 2024   2:47 amMarch 31, 2024   8:34 am
In 2008 voters passed Proposition 1A, directing the California High-Speed Rail Authority (Authority) to construct an electrified 494-mile-long rail system connecting the mega regions of Los Angeles and San Francisco to the growing cities of the Central Valley. This is...
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California’s High Speed Swindle

July 25, 2023   2:50 amJuly 26, 2023   6:50 am
“If it is built, California’s High-Speed Rail would be the largest public works project in state history. That fact alone appears to be intoxicating to state officials, in a perpetual quest to have California be the first state to do...
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‘Your Ass and a Hole in the Ground’ – A Comparative Study

December 14, 2022   2:45 amDecember 13, 2022   8:54 pm
So “Your Ass and a Hole in the Ground” is from David Letterman’s “Top 10 Courses Taken by Basketball Players at UNLV”  from decades ago about basketball players take. That nasty great aunt you haven’t talked to in years has finally...
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California High Speed Rail: Low Speed Fail

December 11, 2022   2:30 amDecember 12, 2022   2:10 pm
Curiouser and curiouser, said Alice as she grew taller and taller in Wonderland. Curiouser and curiouser, said everyone paying even the slightest attention as the high-speed rail fantasy grew bigger and more expensive and further behind schedule and more incomprehensible...
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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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High Speed Rail’s Top Consultant Suspended After Assemblyman Requests Ethics Investigation

June 5, 2019   2:05 amJune 6, 2019   5:09 am
Assemblyman Jim Patterson says it took almost three years to get approval for an audit of the California High Speed Rail Authority… and what an audit it was. “The ruling Party really pushed it off,” said Patterson, a Republican from...
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