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November 4, 2008 - Safe, Reliable High-Speed Passenger Train Bond Act for the 21st Century.
Author: General Obligation
Date: 08-27-2021 - 09:58
November 4, 2008 - August 27, 2021
As we approach the 13 year anniversary, what do we have to show for it?
It took eight years just to start spending!?
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High Speed Rail Board Looks To Use Prop. 1A Bonds For The First Time
Ben Bradford Tuesday, December 13, 2016 | Sacramento, CA
The rail authority board chairman Dan Richard says it also complicates build-out of the bullet train.
"I would suggest to people in the future who want to do something like this that writing engineering standards into a ballot measure might not be the best thing to do," Richard says.
"But it is the law, that was the way the law was written, and we are complying with the law."
That compliance has required careful navigation. The bonds must be used to 1) complete segments of track, 2) where high-speed rail can run 3) without state subsidies.
The authority voted to use about a third of the bond money to help fund a 119-mile segment of track in the Central Valley and electrification of Caltrain lines from San Francisco to San Jose.
To comply with the ballot measure, the Central Valley segment will be built so that high-speed trains could run on it, but none will.
"It will not provide standalone high-speed rail operations until it is connected to the wider high-speed rail system," says a report from an independent consultant hired by the rail authority.
As we approach the 13 year anniversary, what do we have to show for it?
It took eight years just to start spending!?
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High Speed Rail Board Looks To Use Prop. 1A Bonds For The First Time
Ben Bradford Tuesday, December 13, 2016 | Sacramento, CA
The rail authority board chairman Dan Richard says it also complicates build-out of the bullet train.
"I would suggest to people in the future who want to do something like this that writing engineering standards into a ballot measure might not be the best thing to do," Richard says.
"But it is the law, that was the way the law was written, and we are complying with the law."
That compliance has required careful navigation. The bonds must be used to 1) complete segments of track, 2) where high-speed rail can run 3) without state subsidies.
The authority voted to use about a third of the bond money to help fund a 119-mile segment of track in the Central Valley and electrification of Caltrain lines from San Francisco to San Jose.
To comply with the ballot measure, the Central Valley segment will be built so that high-speed trains could run on it, but none will.
"It will not provide standalone high-speed rail operations until it is connected to the wider high-speed rail system," says a report from an independent consultant hired by the rail authority.
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 November 4, 2008 - Safe, Reliable High-Speed Passenger Train Bond Act for the 21st Century. |
General Obligation | 08-27-2021 - 09:58 |
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WebDigger | 08-27-2021 - 10:26 |