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What was once called a "spaghetti bowl" of 14 potential high-speed rail routes in and around Chowchilla has been narrowed to four, and residents got their first close-up look at how their town could be affected in a workshop Wednesday.
About two dozen people -- including members of Kings County's grassroots opposition group Citizens for California High-Speed Rail Accountability -- on Monday crammed into a conference room in the downtown Fresno office of developer Tom Richards, who is one of the authority board's vice chairpersons, for a teleconference that originated from the state Treasurer's Office in Sacramento.
The first of two open-house workshops on high-speed rail options in the Chowchilla area will be from 4 to 7 p.m. today at the Galilee Baptist Church in Fairmead.
Leaders of California's high-speed rail efforts will take another swing Monday at approving an agreement to electrify a Bay Area train system as a step toward creating a statewide rail network.
While many are chattering about high-speed rail these days, state transportation leaders are quietly planning to drop more than $15 billion into California's existing Amtrak train service -- including a big chunk here in the Valley.
It may be a little late in the game, but a Madera County supervisor is floating a last-ditch alternative for a high-speed train route between Merced and Fresno.
A collection of landowners whose properties are in the path of proposed high-speed trains in Madera and Fresno counties have dropped their lawsuit against the California High-Speed Rail Authority.
The California High-Speed Rail Authority announced Monday it has settled a lawsuit filed by the city of Chowchilla over the rail agency's approval of a bullet-train route between Merced and Fresno.
The California High-Speed Rail Authority has yet to select a contractor to build the first stretch of its proposed statewide line in Fresno and Madera counties. But on Wednesday, the agency did hire Wong/Harris, a team of two companies, to oversee whoever is chosen.
California high-speed rail officials allied themselves with Amtrak on Thursday, forming a politically attuned partnership designed to ease the purchase of similar trains.
High-speed rail skeptics gained new traction Wednesday with the promotion of Rep. Jeff Denham, a sharp critic of the California project, to chairmanship of the House panel that oversees railroads. Future rail legislation must pass through Denham's subcommittee.
Real estate attorneys are seizing a monumental opportunity as California lumbers ahead with its high-speed rail plans in the central San Joaquin Valley.
About 100 property owners packed an open house Wednesday to learn how their farms, homes or businesses could be affected by California's proposed high-speed train system.
The state's Public Works Board on Monday cleared the way for the California High-Speed Rail Authority to begin negotiating for property in Fresno and Madera counties needed for high-speed train tracks.
California's highly controversial bullet train project is headed for some kind of political collision.
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