Judge allows California high-speed rail to move forward
A judge denied a request Friday from Central Valley farmers who sought to halt work on California's ambitious high-speed rail project, allowing work on the $68-billion project to continue at an aggressive pace. Sacramento County Superior Court Judge ...latimesblogs.latimes.com
Judge backs Calif. high-speed rail over farmers
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - A judge denied a request Friday from Central Valley farmers who sought to halt work on California's ambitious high-speed rail project, allowing work on the $68 billion project to continue at an aggressive pace. Sacramento ...www.google.com
Bid to block California high-speed rail work fails
Opponents wanted the judge to forbid the California High-Speed Rail Authority from any meaningful work on the Merced-Fresno section -- including planning and design, buying property, or awarding construction contracts -- until he rules on those lawsuits.www.fresnobee.com
High-Speed Rail Association Names New Chair
In California, the planned $6 billion, 140-mile first phase of a proposed $68 billion high speed rail project will break ground next spring, produce about 20,000 jobs and encourage other states to build fast trains, Diridon said.redwoodcity-woodside.patch.com
Residents rail on high-speed plan
Residents of Acton and Agua Dulce cited safety, environmental and community concerns during a meeting Wednesday night held to raise awareness about the local impacts of California's proposed high-speed rail project. About 100 community members ...www.the-signal.com
CA high-speed rail faces crucial court ruling
Central Valley farmers have asked a Sacramento Superior Court judge to grant a preliminary injunction that would prevent the California High-Speed Rail Authority from buying land and continuing work on the project. A green light in the injunction could ...abclocal.go.com
High-Speed Rail Jobs Plan May Give Priority To Down-On-Luck Workers
Job-creation advocates in Fresno said they moved a step closer Wednesday to ensuring that local workers who need a job can compete for one building California's high-speed rail system. Their hopes were boosted during the California High-Speed Rail ...www.huffingtonpost.com
Judge denies injunction to halt high-speed-rail
SACRAMENTO, CA - The future of California's controversial 800-mile, $68 billion dollar High Speed Rail Project hinges on the outcome of a lawsuit filed by farmers, water districts and other interests in the Central Valley.www.news10.net
Lawsuit may derail California's high-speed train
A lawsuit filed by farmers in California's Central Valley is threatening to put the state's $68 billion high-speed rail project on hold. The suit claims the state agency overseeing the project failed to carry out a thorough environmental review as ...gimby.org
In California's Central Valley, farmers fight in their fields and court to ...
Curran, 70, says he's caught city folk from the state's $69 billion high-speed rail project "sneaking" onto his land to survey his farm, where California is getting ready to begin building its biggest public works project in history next year. The ...www.mercurynews.com
California high-speed rail faces court decision Friday
A court ruling expected Friday could temporarily halt California's high-speed rail project, with a judge in Sacramento deciding on a request for a delay from farming interests, the Chronicle reports.www.bizjournals.com
High-speed rail planner pushes back deadline
FRESNO -- The California High-Speed Rail Authority has pushed back the deadline to finish the first stages of the bullet train system in the central San Joaquin Valley.www.mercedsunstar.com
Bullet train segment's completion date pushed back
The California High-Speed Rail Authority said Thursday that it was adding 12 months to the construction schedule for 130 miles of track in the Central Valley, easing what some outside experts have contended was an overly aggressive and risky timeline.www.latimes.com
High-speed rail must tame California's tricky terrain
"It is the project of the century," said Bill Ibbs, a civil engineering professor at UC Berkeley who has worked on high-speed rail projects around the world. The $68 billion first phase of the project is expected to run more than 500 miles between San ...www.sfexaminer.com
Farmers against the California high-speed rail
Kole Upton, right, and his son Darin, owners of the Lost Wagon Wheel Ranch, stand in their corn-nut/almond field (they rotate every year) in Chowchilla, Calif. on Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012. They said they were standing on the location of the proposed ...photos.mercurynews.com
Meeting set tonight for high-speed rail
However, the California High Speed Rail Authority's 2009 business plan set the estimated ticket price to 83% of airfares, raising the one-way high speed rail ticket price between Los Angeles and San Francisco to $105, as this price point appears to be ...www.the-signal.com
CA bullet train route will be engineering feat
"It is the project of the century," said Bill Ibbs, a civil engineering professor at the University of California, Berkeley who has worked on high-speed rail projects around the world. The $68 billion first phase of the project is expected to run more ...www.chron.com
Obama's New Cabinet Can Make Trains Run on Time
The president's original goal was to give 80 percent of Americans access to high-speed rail within 25 years, but so far only California's increasingly embattled system is scheduled for completion by then. High-speed-rail lines in Wisconsin and Florida ...www.bloomberg.com
Opinion: For California bullet train, more backtracking
The latest -- a report that the California High-Speed Rail Authority says first phase of construction, on the 130-mile segment in the state's Central Valley, now is scheduled to be completed by December 2017, a year later than previously laid out.www.dailynews.com
California High-Speed Rail Bidding Deadline Extended
The California High-Speed Rail Authority is pushing back Friday's deadline for bids to design and build the first stretch of high-speed rail line through the Fresno area. Authority CEO Jeffrey Morales said Tuesday that questions from five consortiums ...www.huffingtonpost.com
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