High-Speed Rail
California high-speed rail gets a green light
California’s high-speed rail project can start rolling without waiting for potentially time-consuming approvals from a federal board, officials ruled Thursday.
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HIGH-SPEED RAIL
Despite construction contract, Valley's high-speed rail faces obstacles
Even as officials celebrate what they call a "milestone" contract to start building a statewide high-speed train system in the Fresno-Madera area, uncertainty looms in the form of deadlines, environmental rules and opposition lawsuits.
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HIGH-SPEED RAIL
Denham urges shift in high-speed rail funds to Northeast
Rep. Jeff Denham, R-Turlock, said Friday that billions of dollars in federal funds should be spent on high-speed rail -- just not in California. Denham, the chairman of the railroads subcommittee in the House of Representatives and like many fellow House Republicans a critic of California's high...
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HIGH-SPEED RAIL
High-speed rail board OKs first construction contract for Fresno-Madera link
The California High-Speed Rail Authority on Thursday agreed to the $985 million contract for the first stage of construction for a statewide bullet-train system in the Fresno-Madera area.
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HIGH-SPEED RAIL
High-speed rail board to vote on Fresno-Madera contract
A contract to design and build the first portion of a proposed statewide high-speed rail line, involving construction in the Fresno-Madera area, is to be approved Thursday at the state rail authority's board meeting in Sacramento.
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HIGH-SPEED RAIL
Judge weighs arguments over Valley high-speed rail plans
Five years after voters approved Proposition 1A, a $9.9 billion bond for high-speed rail, attorneys Friday were arguing in a courtroom here whether plans for the train system comply with the law.
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NATIONAL POLITICS
Feds could slow down California’s high-speed rail
The California high-speed rail project is now rapidly approaching an intersection controlled by a powerful, but usually low-profile federal board.
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HIGH-SPEED RAIL
Kings County high-speed train challenge gets court hearing
A Hanford homeowner, a farmer and Kings County have a court date Friday in Sacramento in their legal battle to block California's efforts to build a high-speed train system.
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HIGH-SPEED RAIL
Denham still skeptical of high-speed rail plans
Rep. Jeff Denham came to Madera on Tuesday with plenty of questions about the California High-Speed Rail Authority's plans to start building a high-speed train system in the San Joaquin Valley.
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HIGH-SPEED RAIL
Congressional panel to scrutinize high-speed rail at Madera meeting
The head of the California High-Speed Rail Authority is being asked by a congressional subcommittee to provide a detailed account of how the state agency plans to spend more than $3 billion it has received from the federal government.
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HIGH-SPEED RAIL
Rail board to weigh first-stage contract
The California High-Speed Rail Authority's staff will formally ask the agency's board to award a contract for designing and building the first construction section in the Madera-Fresno area to the lowest bidder.


