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California bullet train officials say they were told to ‘shut up’
Author: FOR BOB2 and his YES vote
Date: 03-09-2020 - 12:44
This is the flat section you, me and grandma could lay out using hand tools!
Amtrak second track to shuttle bay area sprawl?
They won't even get that.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-03-09/california-bullet-train-officials-say-they-were-told-to-suppress-bad-news-and-shut-up
Today, the rail authority is short by 497 of the 2,042 parcels it needs, according to its most recent progress report.
In December, the authority acquired only five parcels.
...problems started more than a decade ago when the Obama administration issued a $2.5-billion grant from its economic stimulus program, intended for “shovel-ready projects.
”The grant came about four years before the first construction contract was issued, and actual work did not begin for two more years. “It was so far from shovel-ready”
Styles and other sources speaking off the record say that the bullet train schedule, which calls for installing 119 miles of track and a complex signal system from Madera to Wasco by 2022, is “impossible,” even though the project’s budget is predicated on the completion date.
To install track by 2022 would normally require all of the bridges, viaducts, trenches and other structures to be completed beforehand.
As a stopgap measure, the rail authority now plans to install track in five-mile discontinuous segments, which the Federal Railroad Administration has criticized as illogical.
When he arrived at the project’s Fresno office, Styles said, he found a dysfunctional operation like he had never seen before — a pressured environment that aimed to contain bad news that could damage the project’s fortunes.
Amtrak second track to shuttle bay area sprawl?
They won't even get that.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-03-09/california-bullet-train-officials-say-they-were-told-to-suppress-bad-news-and-shut-up
Today, the rail authority is short by 497 of the 2,042 parcels it needs, according to its most recent progress report.
In December, the authority acquired only five parcels.
...problems started more than a decade ago when the Obama administration issued a $2.5-billion grant from its economic stimulus program, intended for “shovel-ready projects.
”The grant came about four years before the first construction contract was issued, and actual work did not begin for two more years. “It was so far from shovel-ready”
Styles and other sources speaking off the record say that the bullet train schedule, which calls for installing 119 miles of track and a complex signal system from Madera to Wasco by 2022, is “impossible,” even though the project’s budget is predicated on the completion date.
To install track by 2022 would normally require all of the bridges, viaducts, trenches and other structures to be completed beforehand.
As a stopgap measure, the rail authority now plans to install track in five-mile discontinuous segments, which the Federal Railroad Administration has criticized as illogical.
When he arrived at the project’s Fresno office, Styles said, he found a dysfunctional operation like he had never seen before — a pressured environment that aimed to contain bad news that could damage the project’s fortunes.
California bullet train officials say they were told to ‘shut up’