Posted Dec 1, 2013, 8:17 PM
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She needs her space
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: San Francisco
Posts: 2,454
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Update - 11/30. The concrete pour has made it just about to 1st St, so 1.5 more blocks to go. I don't know what the next step is, but
http://www.mercurynews.com/politics-...ias-high-speed
California's high-speed rail imperiled by court rulings
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In rulings that threaten the future of California's bullet train, a Sacramento judge on Monday ordered the state to draft a new budget for the multibillion dollar project and prove there's enough money to finish the job before it is started.
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While the authority may still use $3 billion in federal funds to break ground in the Central Valley on the rail line's first miles of track as it had planned, more than $8 billion in rail bond money are off-limits until the state fulfills the rulings' requirements.
The state's quest for a bullet train has been plagued by controversy and court decisions that have pushed the project years behind schedule, with Monday's decision the latest setback. A groundbreaking set for this past summer never happened, and the latest time-frame forecasts a spring start.
But to comply with the judge's order, the authority must first identify a source for more than $25 billion in additional funds needed to complete the project. The federal government will foot the rest of the bill.
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Kings County and two of its residents brought the lawsuit against the High-Speed Rail Authority that will force the group to rewrite its spending plan. Michael Brady, a San Francisco attorney who represents them, called the judge's rulings a victory that stymies the project.
"It will be many, many more months before the state can get this thing back in gear, if they ever can," Brady said. "The good people of the Central Valley can sleep better tonight knowing their way of life is less threatened."
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And, plugging along
http://www.fresnobee.com/2013/11/30/...ent-rules.html
Government rules require California's high-speed trains to be built in U.S.
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California has yet to break ground on its controversial high-speed train system, and legal challenges remain in the path of construction.
But that's not stopping the California High-Speed Rail Authority, in conjunction with Amtrak, from shopping around for the best deal on multimillion-dollar trains to roll on their proposed high-speed lines — in California between San Francisco and Los Angeles through the San Joaquin Valley, and Amtrak's Acela service between Boston and Washington, D.C.
Together, the two agencies are preparing to ask for bids in coming weeks from manufacturers to build between 50 and 60 train sets capable of carrying passengers at speeds up to 220 mph.
From a 34-acre plant in southeast Sacramento, Siemens Industry is one of a handful of multinational companies with an eye on the prize — a contract for "rolling stock" potentially worth $2 billion or more.
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