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In some cases, they required changes that nobody had the power to make and in other cases carried too high a political price with outside interest groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"More Stories\" tag=\"high-speed-rail\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, the Legislative Analyst’s Office recommended against an appropriation to start construction, arguing that the California High-Speed Rail Authority wasn’t prepared. Then-Gov. Jerry Brown lobbied the Legislature for it and won. Now, many agree the LAO was right. The Peer Review Group has long warned that the state needs a secure financing plan. But the project proceeds without one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such outside advisers have lacked the resources and the mission to intensively delve into the day-to-day work of the rail project, its army of consultants and its stable of international contractors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The IG will bring a level of oversight that we have not had before,\" said Helen Kerstein, the lone bullet train expert at the Legislative Analyst’s Office. \"This is very powerful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law creating the inspector general lists a wide range of authorities the new office will have: full access to all the project’s records; authority to review contracts and change orders; and the power to issue subpoenas for witnesses and records, among much else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is not some person sitting in a basement,\" said Laura Friedman, chair of the Assembly Transportation Committee, who is widely credited with pushing through the inspector general idea. \"It is going to be staffed. It is going to be real.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That would include investigating waste, fraud and abuse, as well as working with law enforcement and prosecutors, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What the position might look like\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>How big an organization will it require? So far, there is no budget. But the IG would be paid the same as the IG for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, who makes $192,382 and will have a staff of 212 in the coming fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fred Weiderhold, a West Point civil engineer who served for 20 years as Amtrak’s inspector general, said if he were taking the California job, he would want to start with a staff of at least 50 people: half auditors, 30% investigators and 20% inspectors and evaluators.[pullquote size='medium' align='left' citation=\"Fred Weiderhold, civil engineer who served as Amtrak's inspector general\"]'It is a daunting job. You have to follow the money. I guarantee you that on any project this large you will have fraud, product substitution and waste.'[/pullquote]\"It is a daunting job,\" Weiderhold said about the California project. \"You have to follow the money. I guarantee you that on any project this large you will have fraud, product substitution and waste.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time Weiderhold left as Amtrak's inspector general, he had helped put several hundred people in jail and caused 2,000 people to be fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The high-speed rail inspector general will not have authority to control actual spending, a decision that was considered and rejected by Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A more aggressive plan was followed by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority in 2015, when it faced a breakdown in Boston area service and spiraling capital cost overruns. State lawmakers fired the authority’s existing board and installed a new Fiscal and Management Control Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Estimated construction costs on a 4.3-mile extension of a light rail line had grown from $1 billion to $2 billion, said Joe Aiello, the board’s chair. The board stopped work, threw out existing contractors and put in an independent team to evaluate what was going wrong, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There was outrageous scope creep,\" Aiello said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time the board was dissolved last year, the construction cost had been hammered back down to $1 billion, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>State still needs actual train\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Even while increasing oversight, the deal doubles down on the bullet train mission. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2022/05/california-high-speed-rail-standoff/\">An appropriation will release $4.2 billion\u003c/a> from a 2008 bond fund, but only for completing a 171-mile Central Valley segment from Bakersfield to Merced.[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Laura Friedman, chair, Assembly Transportation Committee\"]'They need to deliver something soon that the public understands is a train.'[/pullquote]\"They need to deliver something soon that the public understands is a train,\" said Friedman of the Assembly Transportation Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom met another Assembly demand by adding $3.5 billion for transit projects in the Bay Area and Southern California, as well as $300 million to fix an Orange County Amtrak rail that is ready to fall into the Pacific.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can’t have enough oversight on a project like this,\" Friedman said. \"This is not a minor change. It will be a very big change for the project.\"\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Legislature agreed to create an inspector general job for high-speed rail as part of a compromise they hope will get the project moving and end with an actual train.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1657228015,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":26,"wordCount":958},"headData":{"title":"Beleaguered High-Speed Rail Project to Get Inspector General | KQED","description":"Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Legislature agreed to create an inspector general job for high-speed rail as part of a compromise they hope will get the project moving and end with an actual train.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Beleaguered High-Speed Rail Project to Get Inspector General","datePublished":"2022-07-06T20:40:13.000Z","dateModified":"2022-07-07T21:06:55.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11918825 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11918825","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/07/06/beleaguered-high-speed-rail-project-to-get-inspector-general/","disqusTitle":"Beleaguered High-Speed Rail Project to Get Inspector General","source":"CalMatters","sourceUrl":"https://calmatters.org/transportation/2022/07/high-speed-rail-california/","nprByline":"Ralph Vartabedian","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","path":"/news/11918825/beleaguered-high-speed-rail-project-to-get-inspector-general","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>After a decade of cost, schedule, technical, regulatory, personnel and legal problems, the California high-speed rail project soon will be getting an inspector general as part of a deal between Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new investigative position is intended to intensify oversight and improve performance of the $105 billion railroad project. Enthusiasm for the change is high, but whether it will fix everything is uncertain, even among state leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is nothing but problems on the project,\" said Speaker Anthony Rendon, a Lakewood Democrat. \"The inspector general provides oversight and some sense of what is going on with management. That has been missing for a long time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But will it work?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don’t know,\" Rendon said. \"We need to be vigilant. The IG will provide what we need to carry that out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until now, a variety of outside agencies have advised the Legislature and the governor on the project, resulting in recommendations that often were not carried out. In some cases, they required changes that nobody had the power to make and in other cases carried too high a political price with outside interest groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More Stories ","tag":"high-speed-rail"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, the Legislative Analyst’s Office recommended against an appropriation to start construction, arguing that the California High-Speed Rail Authority wasn’t prepared. Then-Gov. Jerry Brown lobbied the Legislature for it and won. Now, many agree the LAO was right. The Peer Review Group has long warned that the state needs a secure financing plan. But the project proceeds without one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such outside advisers have lacked the resources and the mission to intensively delve into the day-to-day work of the rail project, its army of consultants and its stable of international contractors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The IG will bring a level of oversight that we have not had before,\" said Helen Kerstein, the lone bullet train expert at the Legislative Analyst’s Office. \"This is very powerful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law creating the inspector general lists a wide range of authorities the new office will have: full access to all the project’s records; authority to review contracts and change orders; and the power to issue subpoenas for witnesses and records, among much else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is not some person sitting in a basement,\" said Laura Friedman, chair of the Assembly Transportation Committee, who is widely credited with pushing through the inspector general idea. \"It is going to be staffed. It is going to be real.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That would include investigating waste, fraud and abuse, as well as working with law enforcement and prosecutors, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What the position might look like\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>How big an organization will it require? So far, there is no budget. But the IG would be paid the same as the IG for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, who makes $192,382 and will have a staff of 212 in the coming fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fred Weiderhold, a West Point civil engineer who served for 20 years as Amtrak’s inspector general, said if he were taking the California job, he would want to start with a staff of at least 50 people: half auditors, 30% investigators and 20% inspectors and evaluators.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'It is a daunting job. You have to follow the money. I guarantee you that on any project this large you will have fraud, product substitution and waste.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"left","citation":"Fred Weiderhold, civil engineer who served as Amtrak's inspector general","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\"It is a daunting job,\" Weiderhold said about the California project. \"You have to follow the money. I guarantee you that on any project this large you will have fraud, product substitution and waste.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time Weiderhold left as Amtrak's inspector general, he had helped put several hundred people in jail and caused 2,000 people to be fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The high-speed rail inspector general will not have authority to control actual spending, a decision that was considered and rejected by Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A more aggressive plan was followed by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority in 2015, when it faced a breakdown in Boston area service and spiraling capital cost overruns. State lawmakers fired the authority’s existing board and installed a new Fiscal and Management Control Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Estimated construction costs on a 4.3-mile extension of a light rail line had grown from $1 billion to $2 billion, said Joe Aiello, the board’s chair. The board stopped work, threw out existing contractors and put in an independent team to evaluate what was going wrong, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There was outrageous scope creep,\" Aiello said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time the board was dissolved last year, the construction cost had been hammered back down to $1 billion, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>State still needs actual train\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Even while increasing oversight, the deal doubles down on the bullet train mission. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2022/05/california-high-speed-rail-standoff/\">An appropriation will release $4.2 billion\u003c/a> from a 2008 bond fund, but only for completing a 171-mile Central Valley segment from Bakersfield to Merced.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'They need to deliver something soon that the public understands is a train.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Laura Friedman, chair, Assembly Transportation Committee","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\"They need to deliver something soon that the public understands is a train,\" said Friedman of the Assembly Transportation Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom met another Assembly demand by adding $3.5 billion for transit projects in the Bay Area and Southern California, as well as $300 million to fix an Orange County Amtrak rail that is ready to fall into the Pacific.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can’t have enough oversight on a project like this,\" Friedman said. \"This is not a minor change. It will be a very big change for the project.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11918825/beleaguered-high-speed-rail-project-to-get-inspector-general","authors":["byline_news_11918825"],"categories":["news_8","news_1397"],"tags":["news_307","news_20290","news_25015","news_309"],"featImg":"news_11918840","label":"source_news_11918825"},"news_11913317":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11913317","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11913317","score":null,"sort":[1652131594000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"remember-californias-high-speed-rail-project-its-still-very-much-a-reality-in-these-central-valley-communities","title":"Remember California's High-Speed Rail Project? It's Still Very Much a Reality in These Central Valley Communities","publishDate":1652131594,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>California’s high-speed rail system is someday (or so we’re told) supposed to whisk passengers between Los Angeles and San Francisco in under three hours, traversing the state at speeds of over 200 miles per hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2008, California voters approved nearly $10 billion in bonds to begin construction of the state’s bullet train system, the first project of its kind in the country.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Desrae Ruiz, ironworker, Fresno\"]'I would love to see the finished product of it and be able to say, 'I helped build that train with my husband.''[/pullquote]At the project’s official groundbreaking ceremony in Fresno in 2015, state officials, like then-Gov. Jerry Brown, promised that high-speed rail would not only connect LA and the Bay Area, via the Central Valley, but also eventually reach stations in Anaheim, San Diego and Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fast-forward to today, and the project is tens of billions of dollars over budget and years behind schedule, with critics lambasting it as a major boondoggle that should be scrapped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If ever completed, the bullet train project — now projected to cost $105 billion, of which just over $10 billion has been spent so far — would be the single largest infrastructure investment in state history. It's also \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2022/05/california-high-speed-rail-standoff/\">proven incredibly contentious\u003c/a> among state leaders, with Assembly Democrats still refusing to give Gov. Gavin Newsom a $4.2 billion appropriation for the project that he requested more than a year ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for many Californians, the project is still very much an abstraction because they don’t live in places where they can see it being built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s not the case in the Central Valley, where construction has been underway for years now and where the first trains are slated to eventually start running. The High-Speed Rail Authority, which oversees the project, says it hopes to have the first segment of the line, between Bakersfield and Merced, ready for passenger service by 2030 — although officials also acknowledge further delays are possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913626\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7318-scaled.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11913626\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7318-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"A long line of concrete columns.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7318-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7318-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7318-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7318-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7318-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7318-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7318-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A long line of concrete columns near Fresno that will eventually support train tracks for one of the initial sections of California's high-speed rail project. \u003ccite>(Saul Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s dramatically scaled down from the original plan, which projected that the entire 520-mile section between LA and San Francisco would be completed by 2029.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the edge of south Fresno, next to Highway 99, lies the Cedar Viaduct, a 3,700-foot-long structure with four massive arches and a concrete bed wide enough to fit future tracks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This viaduct, which is already a kind of local landmark, is just one of more than 30 active high-speed rail project construction sites up and down the Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On any typical day, on average, we have about 1,100 dispatched workers on various sites,” said Toni Tinoco, deputy director of the High-Speed Rail Authority. “That's everything between Madera County, all the way to the city of Wasco. That's 119 miles to cover. And we have a lot of men and women in different trades going to these sites, constructing these structures every day.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since breaking ground seven years ago, the project has created over 7,000 jobs and helped support nearly 700 small businesses across the state, she says, supplying everything from construction parts to office supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those economic benefits have been particularly important to Central Valley communities, she argues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913624\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7287-scaled.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11913624\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7287-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"A construction work in an orange vest and white hard hat hammers a steel beam.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7287-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7287-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7287-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7287-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7287-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7287-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7287-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A construction worker pounds a steel beam on the Cedar Viaduct, near Fresno. \u003ccite>(Saul Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Historically, we've had very, very high unemployment rates here,” she said. “High-speed rail has been one of the drivers of getting that number down. Being able to employ people. I mean, our workers and our contractors are here, they're living here, they're investing, they're eating, they're purchasing different products outside of construction, so that’s huge.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the project’s components, like girders and enormous precast concrete slabs, are manufactured at a 40-acre, open-air yard surrounded by farm fields outside the community of Hanford, about 30 miles south of Fresno. The finished products are then loaded aboard flatbed trucks and transported to building sites across the Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doing the work here, as opposed to factories in LA or the Bay Area, cuts down on the transport costs, explains Craig Watt, a project supervisor who works for the private contractor Dragados-Flatiron Joint Venture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And a lot of the local suppliers for precast components in the state of California don't have the capacity to keep up with our demand,” he said\u003cstrong>. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913623\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7256-scaled-e1652128517394.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11913623 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7256-scaled-e1652128517394.jpeg\" alt=\"A man and women, both in orange construction vests and hard hats, pose for a picture. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Husband-and-wife ironworkers Desrae Ruiz (left) and Keith Villagrana say their family has only benefited from working on the high-speed rail project. \u003ccite>(Saul Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ironworker Desrae Ruiz has been working at this site, alongside her husband, for several years, and says she feels like they’re both part of something historic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would love to see the finished product of it and be able to say, ‘I helped build that train with my husband,’” Ruiz said. “Like, that's something that you can hold on to and nobody can take it from me, so it feels good.”[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"high-speed-rail\"]“I started it as a job, and it's become my career,” she added. “I'm really wanting to stick to it full force and go as far as I can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s also good, says Desrae’s husband Keith Villagrana, is the years of steady work and generous pay that high-speed rail creates for residents here in the construction trades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I've actually made more money than I've ever made in the 10 years I've been in my trade,” Villagrana said. “This working for High-Speed Rail Authority has made a big difference in our lives, a very big difference.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not far from the project’s construction sites, it’s easy to find Central Valley residents who say they don’t see the benefits of the massive project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I hear the words ‘high-speed rail,’ I think it's just a lot of waste of money,” said Michael Lopez, who owns Green and Clean, a small construction and landscaping business in the town of Selma, southeast of Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lopez says he’s pretty well-connected to other small businesses in the area, and no one ever mentions high-speed rail being an economic game-changer for the Valley and its people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913620\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7011-scaled.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11913620\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7011-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"An arched bridge crosses over a large street.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7011-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7011-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7011-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7011-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7011-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7011-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7011-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The nearly completed Cedar Viaduct, which will eventually carry bullet trains coming in and out of Fresno. \u003ccite>(Saul Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know who has these jobs,” he said. “I don’t know anybody who works for the high-speed rail personally. I got this contract for the high-speed rail and I’m making all this money?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lopez added, “It’s just going to be a money pit, continually consuming California’s taxpayers' money for something that is not very necessary.”[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jerry Kartunian, Fresno resident\"]'It's a rail that goes nowhere. ... We'll be all dead and gone by the time that thing is up and running.'[/pullquote]At a Panera restaurant in north Fresno, about a dozen regulars gather early in the mornings to talk about the hot-button issues of the day, including the rail project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked how often the project comes up in conversation, Fresno resident Jerry Kartunian laughed: “Oh, every other day,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a rail that goes nowhere,” Kartunian added. “It's going from Bakersfield to Merced. It's supposed to go from LA to San Francisco at, what, $300 billion cost at the end of 35 years? We’ll be all dead and gone by the time that thing is up and running.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Tinoco, of the High-Speed Rail Authority, continues to fiercely defend the project, even as its price tag keeps rising. Each day of construction, she says, brings it closer to reality, despite the many naysayers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913629\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7087-1-scaled.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11913629\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7087-1-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Several construction workers stands in the distance on a large concrete arched bridge\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7087-1-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7087-1-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7087-1-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7087-1-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7087-1-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7087-1-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7087-1-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the four arches that make up the Cedar Viaduct, which is intended to eventually carry bullet trains in and out of Fresno. \u003ccite>(Saul Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The project got a financial shot in the arm last year when the Biden administration restored nearly a billion dollars in federal funding that had been cut by the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And late last month, its board approved a 90-mile extension between Merced and San José. It’s the first time that the route has been officially extended from the Central Valley toward a coastal city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>”You're never going to get all of the support that you hope that you can get,” she said. “But the fact is that California voted on high-speed rail to get this started, and we're trying to deliver what Californians voted for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913621\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7018-scaled.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11913621\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7018-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Elevated train tracks run through a flat expanse.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7018-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7018-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7018-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7018-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7018-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7018-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7018-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An elevated platform near Fresno where tracks will eventually be laid for a bullet train to travel across. \u003ccite>(Saul Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"For many Californians, the project is still very much an abstraction. But that's not the case in the Central Valley, where construction has been underway for years now and where the first trains are slated to eventually start running.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1652134484,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":33,"wordCount":1579},"headData":{"title":"Remember California's High-Speed Rail Project? It's Still Very Much a Reality in These Central Valley Communities | KQED","description":"For many Californians, the project is still very much an abstraction. But that's not the case in the Central Valley, where construction has been underway for years now and where the first trains are slated to eventually start running.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Remember California's High-Speed Rail Project? It's Still Very Much a Reality in These Central Valley Communities","datePublished":"2022-05-09T21:26:34.000Z","dateModified":"2022-05-09T22:14:44.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11913317 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11913317","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/05/09/remember-californias-high-speed-rail-project-its-still-very-much-a-reality-in-these-central-valley-communities/","disqusTitle":"Remember California's High-Speed Rail Project? It's Still Very Much a Reality in These Central Valley Communities","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11913317/remember-californias-high-speed-rail-project-its-still-very-much-a-reality-in-these-central-valley-communities","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California’s high-speed rail system is someday (or so we’re told) supposed to whisk passengers between Los Angeles and San Francisco in under three hours, traversing the state at speeds of over 200 miles per hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2008, California voters approved nearly $10 billion in bonds to begin construction of the state’s bullet train system, the first project of its kind in the country.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'I would love to see the finished product of it and be able to say, 'I helped build that train with my husband.''","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Desrae Ruiz, ironworker, Fresno","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>At the project’s official groundbreaking ceremony in Fresno in 2015, state officials, like then-Gov. Jerry Brown, promised that high-speed rail would not only connect LA and the Bay Area, via the Central Valley, but also eventually reach stations in Anaheim, San Diego and Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fast-forward to today, and the project is tens of billions of dollars over budget and years behind schedule, with critics lambasting it as a major boondoggle that should be scrapped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If ever completed, the bullet train project — now projected to cost $105 billion, of which just over $10 billion has been spent so far — would be the single largest infrastructure investment in state history. It's also \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2022/05/california-high-speed-rail-standoff/\">proven incredibly contentious\u003c/a> among state leaders, with Assembly Democrats still refusing to give Gov. Gavin Newsom a $4.2 billion appropriation for the project that he requested more than a year ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for many Californians, the project is still very much an abstraction because they don’t live in places where they can see it being built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s not the case in the Central Valley, where construction has been underway for years now and where the first trains are slated to eventually start running. The High-Speed Rail Authority, which oversees the project, says it hopes to have the first segment of the line, between Bakersfield and Merced, ready for passenger service by 2030 — although officials also acknowledge further delays are possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913626\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7318-scaled.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11913626\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7318-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"A long line of concrete columns.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7318-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7318-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7318-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7318-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7318-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7318-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7318-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A long line of concrete columns near Fresno that will eventually support train tracks for one of the initial sections of California's high-speed rail project. \u003ccite>(Saul Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s dramatically scaled down from the original plan, which projected that the entire 520-mile section between LA and San Francisco would be completed by 2029.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the edge of south Fresno, next to Highway 99, lies the Cedar Viaduct, a 3,700-foot-long structure with four massive arches and a concrete bed wide enough to fit future tracks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This viaduct, which is already a kind of local landmark, is just one of more than 30 active high-speed rail project construction sites up and down the Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On any typical day, on average, we have about 1,100 dispatched workers on various sites,” said Toni Tinoco, deputy director of the High-Speed Rail Authority. “That's everything between Madera County, all the way to the city of Wasco. That's 119 miles to cover. And we have a lot of men and women in different trades going to these sites, constructing these structures every day.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since breaking ground seven years ago, the project has created over 7,000 jobs and helped support nearly 700 small businesses across the state, she says, supplying everything from construction parts to office supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those economic benefits have been particularly important to Central Valley communities, she argues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913624\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7287-scaled.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11913624\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7287-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"A construction work in an orange vest and white hard hat hammers a steel beam.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7287-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7287-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7287-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7287-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7287-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7287-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7287-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A construction worker pounds a steel beam on the Cedar Viaduct, near Fresno. \u003ccite>(Saul Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Historically, we've had very, very high unemployment rates here,” she said. “High-speed rail has been one of the drivers of getting that number down. Being able to employ people. I mean, our workers and our contractors are here, they're living here, they're investing, they're eating, they're purchasing different products outside of construction, so that’s huge.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the project’s components, like girders and enormous precast concrete slabs, are manufactured at a 40-acre, open-air yard surrounded by farm fields outside the community of Hanford, about 30 miles south of Fresno. The finished products are then loaded aboard flatbed trucks and transported to building sites across the Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doing the work here, as opposed to factories in LA or the Bay Area, cuts down on the transport costs, explains Craig Watt, a project supervisor who works for the private contractor Dragados-Flatiron Joint Venture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And a lot of the local suppliers for precast components in the state of California don't have the capacity to keep up with our demand,” he said\u003cstrong>. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913623\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7256-scaled-e1652128517394.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11913623 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7256-scaled-e1652128517394.jpeg\" alt=\"A man and women, both in orange construction vests and hard hats, pose for a picture. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Husband-and-wife ironworkers Desrae Ruiz (left) and Keith Villagrana say their family has only benefited from working on the high-speed rail project. \u003ccite>(Saul Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ironworker Desrae Ruiz has been working at this site, alongside her husband, for several years, and says she feels like they’re both part of something historic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would love to see the finished product of it and be able to say, ‘I helped build that train with my husband,’” Ruiz said. “Like, that's something that you can hold on to and nobody can take it from me, so it feels good.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"related coverage ","tag":"high-speed-rail"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I started it as a job, and it's become my career,” she added. “I'm really wanting to stick to it full force and go as far as I can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s also good, says Desrae’s husband Keith Villagrana, is the years of steady work and generous pay that high-speed rail creates for residents here in the construction trades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I've actually made more money than I've ever made in the 10 years I've been in my trade,” Villagrana said. “This working for High-Speed Rail Authority has made a big difference in our lives, a very big difference.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not far from the project’s construction sites, it’s easy to find Central Valley residents who say they don’t see the benefits of the massive project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I hear the words ‘high-speed rail,’ I think it's just a lot of waste of money,” said Michael Lopez, who owns Green and Clean, a small construction and landscaping business in the town of Selma, southeast of Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lopez says he’s pretty well-connected to other small businesses in the area, and no one ever mentions high-speed rail being an economic game-changer for the Valley and its people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913620\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7011-scaled.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11913620\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7011-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"An arched bridge crosses over a large street.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7011-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7011-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7011-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7011-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7011-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7011-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7011-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The nearly completed Cedar Viaduct, which will eventually carry bullet trains coming in and out of Fresno. \u003ccite>(Saul Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know who has these jobs,” he said. “I don’t know anybody who works for the high-speed rail personally. I got this contract for the high-speed rail and I’m making all this money?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lopez added, “It’s just going to be a money pit, continually consuming California’s taxpayers' money for something that is not very necessary.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'It's a rail that goes nowhere. ... We'll be all dead and gone by the time that thing is up and running.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Jerry Kartunian, Fresno resident","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>At a Panera restaurant in north Fresno, about a dozen regulars gather early in the mornings to talk about the hot-button issues of the day, including the rail project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked how often the project comes up in conversation, Fresno resident Jerry Kartunian laughed: “Oh, every other day,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a rail that goes nowhere,” Kartunian added. “It's going from Bakersfield to Merced. It's supposed to go from LA to San Francisco at, what, $300 billion cost at the end of 35 years? We’ll be all dead and gone by the time that thing is up and running.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Tinoco, of the High-Speed Rail Authority, continues to fiercely defend the project, even as its price tag keeps rising. Each day of construction, she says, brings it closer to reality, despite the many naysayers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913629\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7087-1-scaled.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11913629\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7087-1-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Several construction workers stands in the distance on a large concrete arched bridge\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7087-1-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7087-1-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7087-1-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7087-1-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7087-1-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7087-1-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7087-1-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the four arches that make up the Cedar Viaduct, which is intended to eventually carry bullet trains in and out of Fresno. \u003ccite>(Saul Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The project got a financial shot in the arm last year when the Biden administration restored nearly a billion dollars in federal funding that had been cut by the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And late last month, its board approved a 90-mile extension between Merced and San José. It’s the first time that the route has been officially extended from the Central Valley toward a coastal city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>”You're never going to get all of the support that you hope that you can get,” she said. “But the fact is that California voted on high-speed rail to get this started, and we're trying to deliver what Californians voted for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913621\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7018-scaled.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11913621\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7018-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Elevated train tracks run through a flat expanse.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7018-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7018-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7018-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7018-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7018-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7018-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7018-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An elevated platform near Fresno where tracks will eventually be laid for a bullet train to travel across. \u003ccite>(Saul Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11913317/remember-californias-high-speed-rail-project-its-still-very-much-a-reality-in-these-central-valley-communities","authors":["11621"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_307","news_311","news_309","news_20517"],"featImg":"news_11913625","label":"news_72"},"news_11662250":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11662250","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11662250","score":null,"sort":[1523664061000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"us-to-audit-grants-awarded-to-california-bullet-train","title":"Feds Will Audit $3.5 Billion in Grants to California Bullet Train","publishDate":1523664061,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>California's high-speed rail project is facing an audit from the U.S. Department of Transportation as costs continue to climb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The inspector general's audit, announced Thursday, will examine the Federal Railroad Administration's oversight of nearly $3.5 billion in federal grant money awarded to the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It comes as the plan to bring travelers between Los Angeles and San Francisco in less than three hours faces growing scrutiny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A business plan released in March shows the state does not have the roughly $30 billion needed to complete the first phase of the project between the Central Valley and San Francisco. The entire project, meanwhile, is expected to cost $77 billion. State auditors are also conducting a review.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101863552/audit-on-high-speed-rail-requested-as-costs-soar\">Audit on High Speed Rail Requested as Costs Soar\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101863552/audit-on-high-speed-rail-requested-as-costs-soar\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2016/04/highspeedrail1920-1180x663.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The authority's new chief executive, Brian Kelly, has pledged more transparency about the project's troubles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We will cooperate fully in this and any other audit of our funding or program,\" Kelly said in a statement. \"We look forward to working closely with our federal partners to deliver the nation's first truly high-speed system.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican U.S. Rep. Jeff Denham, a project critic, requested the audit in December, saying taxpayers deserve a \"full and honest review\" of its finances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The inspector general's office did not provide a timeline for when the federal audit will be completed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal money awarded to California comes with specific conditions that Kelly has promised to meet. They include completing a 119-mile segment of track now under construction in the Central Valley and finishing environmental reviews for the full line by 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The audit will specifically evaluate how the Federal Railroad Administration determines whether California has complied with federal guidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Auditors will release the results publicly along with recommendations to Congress and the U.S. Department of Transportation.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The inspector general's audit will examine $3.5 billion in federal grant money awarded to the project.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1523670632,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":13,"wordCount":310},"headData":{"title":"Feds Will Audit $3.5 Billion in Grants to California Bullet Train | KQED","description":"The inspector general's audit will examine $3.5 billion in federal grant money awarded to the project.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Feds Will Audit $3.5 Billion in Grants to California Bullet Train","datePublished":"2018-04-14T00:01:01.000Z","dateModified":"2018-04-14T01:50:32.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11662250 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11662250","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/04/13/us-to-audit-grants-awarded-to-california-bullet-train/","disqusTitle":"Feds Will Audit $3.5 Billion in Grants to California Bullet Train","source":"Associated Press","nprByline":"Kathleen Ronayne \u003cbr> Associated Press","path":"/news/11662250/us-to-audit-grants-awarded-to-california-bullet-train","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California's high-speed rail project is facing an audit from the U.S. Department of Transportation as costs continue to climb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The inspector general's audit, announced Thursday, will examine the Federal Railroad Administration's oversight of nearly $3.5 billion in federal grant money awarded to the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It comes as the plan to bring travelers between Los Angeles and San Francisco in less than three hours faces growing scrutiny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A business plan released in March shows the state does not have the roughly $30 billion needed to complete the first phase of the project between the Central Valley and San Francisco. The entire project, meanwhile, is expected to cost $77 billion. State auditors are also conducting a review.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101863552/audit-on-high-speed-rail-requested-as-costs-soar\">Audit on High Speed Rail Requested as Costs Soar\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101863552/audit-on-high-speed-rail-requested-as-costs-soar\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2016/04/highspeedrail1920-1180x663.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The authority's new chief executive, Brian Kelly, has pledged more transparency about the project's troubles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We will cooperate fully in this and any other audit of our funding or program,\" Kelly said in a statement. \"We look forward to working closely with our federal partners to deliver the nation's first truly high-speed system.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican U.S. Rep. Jeff Denham, a project critic, requested the audit in December, saying taxpayers deserve a \"full and honest review\" of its finances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The inspector general's office did not provide a timeline for when the federal audit will be completed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal money awarded to California comes with specific conditions that Kelly has promised to meet. They include completing a 119-mile segment of track now under construction in the Central Valley and finishing environmental reviews for the full line by 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The audit will specifically evaluate how the Federal Railroad Administration determines whether California has complied with federal guidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Auditors will release the results publicly along with recommendations to Congress and the U.S. Department of Transportation.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11662250/us-to-audit-grants-awarded-to-california-bullet-train","authors":["byline_news_11662250"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_8","news_1397"],"tags":["news_307","news_17286","news_20517"],"featImg":"news_10847032","label":"source_news_11662250"},"news_11654776":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11654776","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11654776","score":null,"sort":[1520628266000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"bullet-train-releases-new-plan-with-higher-costs-and-delayed-opening","title":"Bullet Train Releases New Plan with Higher Costs and Delayed Opening","publishDate":1520628266,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The projected cost of California's bullet train has jumped to $77 billion and the opening date has been pushed back four years to 2033, according to a business plan released Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every two years, the California High-Speed Rail Authority releases a snapshot of building timelines, cost estimates and other critical details about the ambitious plan to transport people from Los Angeles to San Francisco in under three hours. This is the first under new chief executive Brian Kelly, who has promised more transparency about the project's challenges after years of cost increases and delays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's going to be bumpy,\" said Kelly. \"What's important to me is you hear that from us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11642373/price-tag-soars-for-central-valley-phase-of-california-bullet-train\">Price Tag Soars for Central Valley Phase of California Bullet Train\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>While the goal is to connect the two major cities, the new plan focuses primarily on opening track between San Francisco and the Central Valley. That portion of track is now set to be finished by 2029, also marking a four-year delay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, significant challenges remain. One of them is how to cross through a section of mountains — a critical segment to link Silicon Valley to the Central Valley. Rail officials are still working on how best to do that, Kelly wrote in the plan's introduction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $77 billion cost, a 20 percent increase, is a baseline estimate, but Kelly also included high and low ranges in the plan based on potential risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the released plan, 119 miles of track in the Central Valley — the first construction segment — is scheduled to be completed by 2022. That's 14 years after voters approved a $10 billion bond for high-speed rail in November 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11647028/california-lawmakers-seek-bullet-train-audit-as-cost-rises\">California Lawmakers OK Bullet Train Audit as Cost Rises\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>A summary of the plan reviewed by The Associated Press offers limited details on the portion between the Central Valley and Los Angeles. The agency hopes to complete all necessary environmental reviews for the entire line by 2022. Initial timelines had planned for environmental clearance by 2017 for most parts of the track.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How to pay for the entire project remains \"uncertain,\" said Kelly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has spent $2.5 billion in federal stimulus money and has an additional $930 million in federal money on the table. That's on top of the $10 billion bond from voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rest of the money is set to come from California's cap-and-trade auctions, a system meant to limit carbon emissions by selling credits to pollute, which can be a volatile source of revenue diverted by lawmakers in the future. Predicted private investment for the project has not come through either, although Kelly hopes businesses and other private investors will chip in once part of the train is up and running between Silicon Valley and the Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the challenges, Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown reaffirmed his commitment to building high-speed rail in his \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/01/25/gov-jerry-brown-celebrates-victories-in-final-state-of-the-state-address/\">January State of the State address\u003c/a>. The Legislature, though, recently approved \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11647028/california-lawmakers-seek-bullet-train-audit-as-cost-rises\">an audit of the project\u003c/a>. The Legislature serves in an oversight role and controls a portion of the money to build rail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm ready for Mr. Kelly to be honest and straightforward and tell us the good, bad and the ugly,\" said Republican Assemblyman Jim Patterson of Fresno, a chief critic of the project.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Projected cost has jumped to $77 billion -- a 20 percent increase -- and opening date has been pushed back four years to 2033.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1520640704,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":15,"wordCount":559},"headData":{"title":"Bullet Train Releases New Plan with Higher Costs and Delayed Opening | KQED","description":"Projected cost has jumped to $77 billion -- a 20 percent increase -- and opening date has been pushed back four years to 2033.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Bullet Train Releases New Plan with Higher Costs and Delayed Opening","datePublished":"2018-03-09T20:44:26.000Z","dateModified":"2018-03-10T00:11:44.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11654776 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11654776","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/03/09/bullet-train-releases-new-plan-with-higher-costs-and-delayed-opening/","disqusTitle":"Bullet Train Releases New Plan with Higher Costs and Delayed Opening","nprByline":"Kathleen Ronayne\u003cbr>\u003cstrong>Associated Press\u003c/strong>","path":"/news/11654776/bullet-train-releases-new-plan-with-higher-costs-and-delayed-opening","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The projected cost of California's bullet train has jumped to $77 billion and the opening date has been pushed back four years to 2033, according to a business plan released Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every two years, the California High-Speed Rail Authority releases a snapshot of building timelines, cost estimates and other critical details about the ambitious plan to transport people from Los Angeles to San Francisco in under three hours. This is the first under new chief executive Brian Kelly, who has promised more transparency about the project's challenges after years of cost increases and delays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's going to be bumpy,\" said Kelly. \"What's important to me is you hear that from us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11642373/price-tag-soars-for-central-valley-phase-of-california-bullet-train\">Price Tag Soars for Central Valley Phase of California Bullet Train\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>While the goal is to connect the two major cities, the new plan focuses primarily on opening track between San Francisco and the Central Valley. That portion of track is now set to be finished by 2029, also marking a four-year delay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, significant challenges remain. One of them is how to cross through a section of mountains — a critical segment to link Silicon Valley to the Central Valley. Rail officials are still working on how best to do that, Kelly wrote in the plan's introduction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $77 billion cost, a 20 percent increase, is a baseline estimate, but Kelly also included high and low ranges in the plan based on potential risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the released plan, 119 miles of track in the Central Valley — the first construction segment — is scheduled to be completed by 2022. That's 14 years after voters approved a $10 billion bond for high-speed rail in November 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11647028/california-lawmakers-seek-bullet-train-audit-as-cost-rises\">California Lawmakers OK Bullet Train Audit as Cost Rises\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>A summary of the plan reviewed by The Associated Press offers limited details on the portion between the Central Valley and Los Angeles. The agency hopes to complete all necessary environmental reviews for the entire line by 2022. Initial timelines had planned for environmental clearance by 2017 for most parts of the track.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How to pay for the entire project remains \"uncertain,\" said Kelly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has spent $2.5 billion in federal stimulus money and has an additional $930 million in federal money on the table. That's on top of the $10 billion bond from voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rest of the money is set to come from California's cap-and-trade auctions, a system meant to limit carbon emissions by selling credits to pollute, which can be a volatile source of revenue diverted by lawmakers in the future. Predicted private investment for the project has not come through either, although Kelly hopes businesses and other private investors will chip in once part of the train is up and running between Silicon Valley and the Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the challenges, Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown reaffirmed his commitment to building high-speed rail in his \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/01/25/gov-jerry-brown-celebrates-victories-in-final-state-of-the-state-address/\">January State of the State address\u003c/a>. The Legislature, though, recently approved \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11647028/california-lawmakers-seek-bullet-train-audit-as-cost-rises\">an audit of the project\u003c/a>. The Legislature serves in an oversight role and controls a portion of the money to build rail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm ready for Mr. Kelly to be honest and straightforward and tell us the good, bad and the ugly,\" said Republican Assemblyman Jim Patterson of Fresno, a chief critic of the project.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11654776/bullet-train-releases-new-plan-with-higher-costs-and-delayed-opening","authors":["byline_news_11654776"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8","news_1397"],"tags":["news_308","news_307","news_17286"],"featImg":"news_11654792","label":"news_72"},"news_11642373":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11642373","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11642373","score":null,"sort":[1516205297000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"price-tag-soars-for-central-valley-phase-of-california-bullet-train","title":"Price Tag Soars for Central Valley Phase of California Bullet Train","publishDate":1516205297,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The estimated cost for the first phase of California's bullet train has climbed by $2.8 billion, the latest increase for the ambitious project to run a high-speed rail line from San Francisco to Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new estimate for the 119-mile segment in the San Joaquin Valley announced by the California High Speed Rail Authority on Tuesday brings the cost of that section to $10.6 billion -- 36 percent higher than the previous estimate. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The estimate for the entire project has risen to roughly $67 billion, compared to the $40 billion projection backers made in 2008 when voters approved bond financing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I want the public to count on us to tell the truth, whether it's good, bad or ugly,\" said Dan Richard, chair of the California High Speed Rail Authority's board. \"We're going to do every single thing in our power to drive these costs down.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the fresh costs stem from trouble acquiring the rights of way for the track in the Central Valley. The authority entered into construction contracts before fully securing rights of way in all areas, a decision officials said they wouldn't make again. The decision to enter into contracts quickly was partly due to the need to spend $2.5 billion in federal stimulus money by last fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Much of today was a 'lessons learned' expression,\" said Brian Kelly, the state's current transportation secretary who was named as the authority's new chief executive Tuesday. \"Because they learned these things the hard way on the early contracts they will not repeat them on the later contracts.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics seized on the news at the latest evidence the project is destined for failure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We now have a set of facts that is so clear that this authority simply is unable to produce the project, and making it up as they go along simply is not a sane approach,\" said Assemblyman Jim Patterson, R-Fresno. In November, he asked the Legislature to initiate an emergency audit of the rail project -- a request that \u003ca href=\"http://beta.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-bullet-train-audit-20171127-story.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was later denied\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[The \u003ca href=\"http://beta.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-bullet-train-cost-overrun-20180116-story.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Times notes\u003c/a> that the cost increases disclosed Tuesday were anticipated by a federal report last year: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"The sobering news about the cost increases \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-bullet-train-cost-final-20151025-story.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was long forewarned\u003c/a>, though rail authority Chairman Dan Richard has consistently rejected those warnings. About a year ago, the Federal Railroad Administration issued a secret risk analysis that said costs were rising sharply and could hit $9.5 to $10 billion. When The Times \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-bullet-cost-overruns-20170106-story.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">disclosed the warning\u003c/a>, Richard downplayed the analysis. In 2012, WSP briefed a cost analysis for the 2014 business plan, showing sharply higher costs in the Central Valley. The cost estimates were not adopted in the 2014 business plan. Richard was not available for an interview.\"]\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>A 2008 ballot measure passed by voters promised a train that would run from San Francisco to Los Angeles in under three hours by 2029, with the track eventually expanding to Sacramento and San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October the rail board approved a $30 million contract with DB Engineering & Consulting USA, the U.S. arm of German rail giant Deutsche Bahn AG, to design and operate the train from the Central Valley to the Silicon Valley in its early stages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A fresh estimate on overall costs and possibly the timeline will be included in a business plan the authority must submit to lawmakers this spring. Beyond the bond and federal dollars, money for the train comes from California's cap-and-trade program that taxes carbon emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Jerry Brown, who will leave office a year from now, has been a champion of the project because it will be a cleaner and more efficient transportation option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The candidates vying to replace him have a variety of perspectives on the bullet train, with some arguing it needs a better financing plan. The Legislature may get a one-time chance in 2024 to reallocate cap and trade money, which could hurt the rail project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The uncertainty made it difficult to recruit a new chief executive after Jeff Morales left the job last summer after five years. Kelly will start the new job next month at a salary of nearly $385,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard, the board chairman, acknowledged the new governor will need certainty on the project's financing and timeline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I do feel that owe it to the next governor to provide a complete package to them of what this program looks like,\" he said. \"I'd like to not have a lot of loose ends when we get to that point.\"\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Estimated cost for 119-mile segment in San Joaquin Valley jumps by 36 percent due to cost of acquiring land and other challenges. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1516239248,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":20,"wordCount":764},"headData":{"title":"Price Tag Soars for Central Valley Phase of California Bullet Train | KQED","description":"Estimated cost for 119-mile segment in San Joaquin Valley jumps by 36 percent due to cost of acquiring land and other challenges. 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The authority entered into construction contracts before fully securing rights of way in all areas, a decision officials said they wouldn't make again. The decision to enter into contracts quickly was partly due to the need to spend $2.5 billion in federal stimulus money by last fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Much of today was a 'lessons learned' expression,\" said Brian Kelly, the state's current transportation secretary who was named as the authority's new chief executive Tuesday. \"Because they learned these things the hard way on the early contracts they will not repeat them on the later contracts.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics seized on the news at the latest evidence the project is destined for failure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We now have a set of facts that is so clear that this authority simply is unable to produce the project, and making it up as they go along simply is not a sane approach,\" said Assemblyman Jim Patterson, R-Fresno. In November, he asked the Legislature to initiate an emergency audit of the rail project -- a request that \u003ca href=\"http://beta.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-bullet-train-audit-20171127-story.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was later denied\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[The \u003ca href=\"http://beta.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-bullet-train-cost-overrun-20180116-story.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Times notes\u003c/a> that the cost increases disclosed Tuesday were anticipated by a federal report last year: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"The sobering news about the cost increases \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-bullet-train-cost-final-20151025-story.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was long forewarned\u003c/a>, though rail authority Chairman Dan Richard has consistently rejected those warnings. About a year ago, the Federal Railroad Administration issued a secret risk analysis that said costs were rising sharply and could hit $9.5 to $10 billion. When The Times \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-bullet-cost-overruns-20170106-story.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">disclosed the warning\u003c/a>, Richard downplayed the analysis. In 2012, WSP briefed a cost analysis for the 2014 business plan, showing sharply higher costs in the Central Valley. The cost estimates were not adopted in the 2014 business plan. Richard was not available for an interview.\"]\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>A 2008 ballot measure passed by voters promised a train that would run from San Francisco to Los Angeles in under three hours by 2029, with the track eventually expanding to Sacramento and San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October the rail board approved a $30 million contract with DB Engineering & Consulting USA, the U.S. arm of German rail giant Deutsche Bahn AG, to design and operate the train from the Central Valley to the Silicon Valley in its early stages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A fresh estimate on overall costs and possibly the timeline will be included in a business plan the authority must submit to lawmakers this spring. Beyond the bond and federal dollars, money for the train comes from California's cap-and-trade program that taxes carbon emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Jerry Brown, who will leave office a year from now, has been a champion of the project because it will be a cleaner and more efficient transportation option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The candidates vying to replace him have a variety of perspectives on the bullet train, with some arguing it needs a better financing plan. The Legislature may get a one-time chance in 2024 to reallocate cap and trade money, which could hurt the rail project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The uncertainty made it difficult to recruit a new chief executive after Jeff Morales left the job last summer after five years. Kelly will start the new job next month at a salary of nearly $385,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard, the board chairman, acknowledged the new governor will need certainty on the project's financing and timeline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I do feel that owe it to the next governor to provide a complete package to them of what this program looks like,\" he said. \"I'd like to not have a lot of loose ends when we get to that point.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11642373/price-tag-soars-for-central-valley-phase-of-california-bullet-train","authors":["byline_news_11642373"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_13","news_248","news_1397"],"tags":["news_307","news_309","news_17286"],"featImg":"news_11218992","label":"news_72"},"news_11596759":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11596759","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11596759","score":null,"sort":[1501182246000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-court-could-speed-up-building-of-bullet-train","title":"California Court Could Speed Up Building of Bullet Train","publishDate":1501182246,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>A California Supreme Court decision Thursday could help speed up construction of a $64 billion bullet train between Los Angeles and San Francisco by allowing the project to sidestep a strict environmental law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court will decide whether state-owned and state-funded rail lines are subject to the California Environmental Quality Act or whether federal law trumps it. The ruling will come in a lawsuit that challenged plans to introduce freight trains on a Northern California rail line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters and critics of the state's proposed high-speed rail system say the decision could apply to the bullet train.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ambitious project has faced numerous lawsuits alleging violations of state environmental law. Those lawsuits could disappear if the California justices rule that federal law supersedes state law for rail projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California High-Speed Rail Authority also could be freed from a host of regulatory and procedural requirements that might slow construction of the line. The project would still be subject to the National Environmental Policy Act, but critics say that's not a substitute for the state's stricter environmental protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rail authority's push to avoid those rules may seem ironic for a signature project of Gov. Jerry Brown, who has positioned himself as a leader on environmental issues. But the agency said that, to be successful, it must be subject to the same regulations as other railroads to further its \"ability to achieve the transportation, environmental, and economic benefits the high-speed rail system has to offer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"Z5foL8ipmu04qd7tnUVWdMRotlf3hlD2\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rail authority urged the court to find that federal law trumps the state's environmental law, saying the case had \"potentially important ramifications for the high-speed rail project.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Central Valley farmers concerned about the bullet train's effect on agricultural land asked the court to reach the opposite conclusion or limit its decision to the lawsuit over the Northern California rail line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If the court finds the federal pre-emption of CEQA applies broadly to railroads in California such that the authority will no longer be required to satisfy CEQA's requirements, the authority will be able to evade the environmental and political accountability that California's Legislature (and the voters) intended,\" the Madera and Merced county farm bureaus said in their legal filing, referring to the California Environmental Quality Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Supreme Court ruling could clear up uncertainty following a determination several years ago by a federal agency that it has authority to pre-empt state environmental law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a decision made public in 2014, the U.S. Surface Transportation Board said lawsuits challenging the high-speed rail line over environmental issues conflict with its authority over railroads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A California appeals court earlier ruled in favor of several municipalities south of San Francisco that challenged the high-speed rail project using the state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Court of Appeal sided with Atherton, Menlo Park, Palo Alto and a collection of community groups in ruling that federal law does not trump the California environmental law.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The California Supreme Court will decide on whether rail lines owned and funded by the state are subject to the California Environmental Quality Act or whether federal law trumps it..","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1501190306,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":16,"wordCount":505},"headData":{"title":"California Court Could Speed Up Building of Bullet Train | KQED","description":"The California Supreme Court will decide on whether rail lines owned and funded by the state are subject to the California Environmental Quality Act or whether federal law trumps it..","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"California Court Could Speed Up Building of Bullet Train","datePublished":"2017-07-27T19:04:06.000Z","dateModified":"2017-07-27T21:18:26.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11596759 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11596759","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/07/27/california-court-could-speed-up-building-of-bullet-train/","disqusTitle":"California Court Could Speed Up Building of Bullet Train","nprByline":"Sudhin Thanawala\u003cbr>Associated Press","path":"/news/11596759/california-court-could-speed-up-building-of-bullet-train","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A California Supreme Court decision Thursday could help speed up construction of a $64 billion bullet train between Los Angeles and San Francisco by allowing the project to sidestep a strict environmental law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court will decide whether state-owned and state-funded rail lines are subject to the California Environmental Quality Act or whether federal law trumps it. The ruling will come in a lawsuit that challenged plans to introduce freight trains on a Northern California rail line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters and critics of the state's proposed high-speed rail system say the decision could apply to the bullet train.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ambitious project has faced numerous lawsuits alleging violations of state environmental law. Those lawsuits could disappear if the California justices rule that federal law supersedes state law for rail projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California High-Speed Rail Authority also could be freed from a host of regulatory and procedural requirements that might slow construction of the line. The project would still be subject to the National Environmental Policy Act, but critics say that's not a substitute for the state's stricter environmental protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rail authority's push to avoid those rules may seem ironic for a signature project of Gov. Jerry Brown, who has positioned himself as a leader on environmental issues. But the agency said that, to be successful, it must be subject to the same regulations as other railroads to further its \"ability to achieve the transportation, environmental, and economic benefits the high-speed rail system has to offer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rail authority urged the court to find that federal law trumps the state's environmental law, saying the case had \"potentially important ramifications for the high-speed rail project.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Central Valley farmers concerned about the bullet train's effect on agricultural land asked the court to reach the opposite conclusion or limit its decision to the lawsuit over the Northern California rail line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If the court finds the federal pre-emption of CEQA applies broadly to railroads in California such that the authority will no longer be required to satisfy CEQA's requirements, the authority will be able to evade the environmental and political accountability that California's Legislature (and the voters) intended,\" the Madera and Merced county farm bureaus said in their legal filing, referring to the California Environmental Quality Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Supreme Court ruling could clear up uncertainty following a determination several years ago by a federal agency that it has authority to pre-empt state environmental law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a decision made public in 2014, the U.S. Surface Transportation Board said lawsuits challenging the high-speed rail line over environmental issues conflict with its authority over railroads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A California appeals court earlier ruled in favor of several municipalities south of San Francisco that challenged the high-speed rail project using the state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Court of Appeal sided with Atherton, Menlo Park, Palo Alto and a collection of community groups in ruling that federal law does not trump the California environmental law.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11596759/california-court-could-speed-up-building-of-bullet-train","authors":["byline_news_11596759"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_19906","news_6188","news_1397"],"tags":["news_307","news_309"],"featImg":"news_11596874","label":"news_72"},"news_11372467":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11372467","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11372467","score":null,"sort":[1490291817000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"judge-rejects-latest-attempt-to-stall-california-bullet-train","title":"Judge Rejects Latest Attempt to Stall California Bullet Train","publishDate":1490291817,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>SACRAMENTO — A judge has rejected opponents' latest attempt to stall California's $64 billion high-speed rail project Wednesday, but will consider their arguments once more before the state issues voter-approved bonds next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Raymond Cadei ruled against a temporary restraining order sought by Kings County and other high-speed rail opponents. He set an April 19 hearing to consider a preliminary injunction, one day before the state anticipates selling a portion of the nearly $10 billion in bonds that voters approved in 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The opponents' latest lawsuit challenges AB 1889, which was signed into law last year by high-speed rail proponent Gov. Jerry Brown. It changed previous laws to allow high-speed rail bonds to be spent to electrify 55 miles of track from south of San Jose to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit says the change is beyond what California voters approved nearly a decade ago, and that only voters can make the change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is their way to get around the financial straitjacket. That's the whole purpose of AB 1889,\" said David Schonbrunn, president of the Transportation Solutions Defense and Education Fund that joined in the lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers and the California High-Speed Rail Authority say it was merely clarifying legislation that authorized $1.1 billion for transit improvements at both ends of the high-speed rail project, and that the Legislature could act on its own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rail authority spokeswoman Lisa Marie Alley noted that opponents have failed for more than five years to block the project while succeeding only in driving up delays and costs. Financing has been moving ahead after plaintiffs in the biggest lawsuit lost and decided last year not to appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An injunction now \"would harm the public interest, by putting billions of public dollars at risk,\" the state argued in its court filing. However, the bullet train's future also remains uncertain because it relies on significant federal funding, and the Republican-controlled Congress does not support the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cadei met with attorneys privately in his office and did not hear public arguments before ruling.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Opponents are challenging rail authority's plan to use bond funds to help electrify Caltrain route. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1490317227,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":11,"wordCount":353},"headData":{"title":"Judge Rejects Latest Attempt to Stall California Bullet Train | KQED","description":"Opponents are challenging rail authority's plan to use bond funds to help electrify Caltrain route. 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He set an April 19 hearing to consider a preliminary injunction, one day before the state anticipates selling a portion of the nearly $10 billion in bonds that voters approved in 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The opponents' latest lawsuit challenges AB 1889, which was signed into law last year by high-speed rail proponent Gov. Jerry Brown. It changed previous laws to allow high-speed rail bonds to be spent to electrify 55 miles of track from south of San Jose to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit says the change is beyond what California voters approved nearly a decade ago, and that only voters can make the change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is their way to get around the financial straitjacket. That's the whole purpose of AB 1889,\" said David Schonbrunn, president of the Transportation Solutions Defense and Education Fund that joined in the lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers and the California High-Speed Rail Authority say it was merely clarifying legislation that authorized $1.1 billion for transit improvements at both ends of the high-speed rail project, and that the Legislature could act on its own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rail authority spokeswoman Lisa Marie Alley noted that opponents have failed for more than five years to block the project while succeeding only in driving up delays and costs. Financing has been moving ahead after plaintiffs in the biggest lawsuit lost and decided last year not to appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An injunction now \"would harm the public interest, by putting billions of public dollars at risk,\" the state argued in its court filing. However, the bullet train's future also remains uncertain because it relies on significant federal funding, and the Republican-controlled Congress does not support the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cadei met with attorneys privately in his office and did not hear public arguments before ruling.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11372467/judge-rejects-latest-attempt-to-stall-california-bullet-train","authors":["byline_news_11372467"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_8","news_1397"],"tags":["news_307","news_17286"],"featImg":"news_10919766","label":"news_72"},"news_11336507":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11336507","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11336507","score":null,"sort":[1488355262000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"with-caltrain-project-in-danger-bay-area-delegation-plans-lobbying-trip-to-d-c","title":"With Caltrain Project in Danger, Bay Area Delegation Plans Lobbying Trip to D.C.","publishDate":1488355262,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Every year, delegations of Bay Area transportation officials and business leaders travel to Washington, D.C., to lobby for federal dollars around the same time as the American Public Transportation Association's annual legislative conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, with worries that the Trump administration may pull the plug on $647 million to electrify Caltrain just as the project was set to start construction, the Bay Area groups will go all out when they travel to the nation's capital March 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're using every single leverage and contact point we have as a Bay Area and as a political infrastructure to try to make a difference on this subject,\" said Randy Rentschler, the legislative and public affairs director for the Metropolitan Transportation Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Silicon Valley delegation will include some heavyweights, including executives from nearly 70 firms, from global powerhouses to startups, who will make the case to Democratic and Republican members of Congress and administration officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Companies like Google, Facebook and Genentech have already been reaching out, said Chris O'Connor, the senior director of transportation at the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, which is organizing a trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This project really is one of the biggest local priorities for this very important business community, which drives innovation across the entire country,\" said O'Connor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayors of San Jose, Palo Alto and Sunnyvale, along with other local elected officials, will join the lobbying effort, which grows out of a partisan political fight over California's high-speed rail system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, the 14 Republicans in California's delegation to the House of Representatives \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/2017_01_24-ca-delegation-letter-to-secretary-chao-on-high-speed-rail-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">sent a letter\u003c/a> to new Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao urging her to block any further funding of California high-speed rail. That would include the $647 million federal share of the Caltrain electrification work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We think providing additional funding at this time to the authority would be an irresponsible use of taxpayer dollars,\" the letter said. It called for no further funds to be granted until \"a full and complete audit of the project and its finances can be conducted.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That letter drew a rebuttal from California's Democratic congressional delegation, including Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris. They said the GOP contingent's demand would kill a project that, while it could be used by bullet trains in the future, is separate from the high-speed rail project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That point was hammered home \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/CA-Delegation-letter-to-Secretary-Chao-re-Caltrain-2.3.17.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">in a Feb. 3 letter defending the project\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Rail service has operated on this corridor for over 150 years and for decades Caltrain has sought to electrify this line to replace aging diesel engines,\" the Democrats' letter stated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chao delayed the funding decision, as the Republicans requested, with the Federal Transit Administration issuing a statement Feb. 17 that said it was \"deferring a decision\" on the modernization funds \"to be considered in conjunction with the development of the president's\" budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrain's $1.9 billion modernization project will allow the transit agency to switch from diesel-hauled engines to faster, quieter and more efficient electric trains by 2021. It will help boost the system's ridership by about 70 percent by 2040.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a really important project for the Bay Area at an important time when our region, and especially the part of the region that delivers over half the gross domestic product of the overall Bay Area, the 101 corridor, is experiencing terrible, terrible congestion,\" said Jim Wunderman, president of the Bay Area Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The electrification project was scheduled to begin construction Wednesday. On Monday, Caltrain officials announced that they were able to renegotiate the project's schedule with contractors, getting an extension until June 30. Not only is the delay a setback, but it will tack on a cost of $20 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seamus Murphy, Caltrain's communications director, said the new timeline will allow the Trump administration time to make its decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We think it will be approved and we'll be able to move this project forward,\" Murphy \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/forum/2017/02/23/transportation-advocates-imagine-caltrains-future-as-trump-administration-delays-funding/\">told KQED's \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em> last Friday\u003c/a>. \"If we aren't able to do that for some reason, we would need to think about alternative sources of funding and we would have that conversation when the time is appropriate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Murphy said one factor that weighs in favor of the project is that it \u003ca href=\"http://www.caltrain.com/Assets/Caltrain+Modernization+Program/Electrification/CalMod+Jobs.pdf\">would create 9,600 jobs in 15 states\u003c/a>. The transit agency has launched \u003ca href=\"https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/support-9600-american-jobs-tell-fta-approve-funding-caltrain-electrification\" target=\"_blank\">a petition\u003c/a> that urges the president to give the green light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Trump hasn't publicly laid out a transportation agenda, he \u003ca href=\"http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article132002204.html\" target=\"_blank\">has hinted\u003c/a> that his infrastructure goals would include high-speed rail. But there have been reports that the administration may take a page from \u003ca href=\"http://solutions.heritage.org/the-economy/transportation/\" target=\"_blank\">a proposal\u003c/a> by the conservative Heritage Foundation and \u003ca href=\"http://usa.streetsblog.org/2017/01/19/trumps-first-budget-may-zero-out-federal-transit-funding/\" target=\"_blank\">gut transit funding\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wunderman of the Bay Area Council said he has had conversations with House Republican Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield, who agreed Caltrain electrification is a \"viable and valued project,\" but opposes it because of its ties to high-speed rail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O'Connor said previous threats to cut federal transit funding have split the Republican caucus because \"many Republican elected leaders have served as mayors and supervisors before joining Congress and realize how important it is to have federal investment in transportation infrastructure.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The delegation, which is seeking a meeting with Transportation Secretary Chao, plans to make it clear to both Republicans and Democrats how important the Caltrain electrification funding is to Silicon Valley and in promoting new economic corridors and facilitating commerce, said O'Connor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We do think it's a very strong argument with many Republicans who don't agree with the Heritage Foundation's recommendations precisely,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Some Silicon Valley heavyweights will travel to Washington to make the case for a project Caltrain says is crucial to the region's future.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1488410604,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":26,"wordCount":937},"headData":{"title":"With Caltrain Project in Danger, Bay 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https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11336507","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/03/01/with-caltrain-project-in-danger-bay-area-delegation-plans-lobbying-trip-to-d-c/","disqusTitle":"With Caltrain Project in Danger, Bay Area Delegation Plans Lobbying Trip to D.C.","path":"/news/11336507/with-caltrain-project-in-danger-bay-area-delegation-plans-lobbying-trip-to-d-c","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Every year, delegations of Bay Area transportation officials and business leaders travel to Washington, D.C., to lobby for federal dollars around the same time as the American Public Transportation Association's annual legislative conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, with worries that the Trump administration may pull the plug on $647 million to electrify Caltrain just as the project was set to start construction, the Bay Area groups will go all out when they travel to the nation's capital March 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're using every single leverage and contact point we have as a Bay Area and as a political infrastructure to try to make a difference on this subject,\" said Randy Rentschler, the legislative and public affairs director for the Metropolitan Transportation Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Silicon Valley delegation will include some heavyweights, including executives from nearly 70 firms, from global powerhouses to startups, who will make the case to Democratic and Republican members of Congress and administration officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Companies like Google, Facebook and Genentech have already been reaching out, said Chris O'Connor, the senior director of transportation at the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, which is organizing a trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This project really is one of the biggest local priorities for this very important business community, which drives innovation across the entire country,\" said O'Connor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayors of San Jose, Palo Alto and Sunnyvale, along with other local elected officials, will join the lobbying effort, which grows out of a partisan political fight over California's high-speed rail system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, the 14 Republicans in California's delegation to the House of Representatives \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/2017_01_24-ca-delegation-letter-to-secretary-chao-on-high-speed-rail-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">sent a letter\u003c/a> to new Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao urging her to block any further funding of California high-speed rail. That would include the $647 million federal share of the Caltrain electrification work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We think providing additional funding at this time to the authority would be an irresponsible use of taxpayer dollars,\" the letter said. It called for no further funds to be granted until \"a full and complete audit of the project and its finances can be conducted.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That letter drew a rebuttal from California's Democratic congressional delegation, including Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris. They said the GOP contingent's demand would kill a project that, while it could be used by bullet trains in the future, is separate from the high-speed rail project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That point was hammered home \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/CA-Delegation-letter-to-Secretary-Chao-re-Caltrain-2.3.17.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">in a Feb. 3 letter defending the project\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Rail service has operated on this corridor for over 150 years and for decades Caltrain has sought to electrify this line to replace aging diesel engines,\" the Democrats' letter stated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chao delayed the funding decision, as the Republicans requested, with the Federal Transit Administration issuing a statement Feb. 17 that said it was \"deferring a decision\" on the modernization funds \"to be considered in conjunction with the development of the president's\" budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrain's $1.9 billion modernization project will allow the transit agency to switch from diesel-hauled engines to faster, quieter and more efficient electric trains by 2021. It will help boost the system's ridership by about 70 percent by 2040.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a really important project for the Bay Area at an important time when our region, and especially the part of the region that delivers over half the gross domestic product of the overall Bay Area, the 101 corridor, is experiencing terrible, terrible congestion,\" said Jim Wunderman, president of the Bay Area Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The electrification project was scheduled to begin construction Wednesday. On Monday, Caltrain officials announced that they were able to renegotiate the project's schedule with contractors, getting an extension until June 30. Not only is the delay a setback, but it will tack on a cost of $20 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seamus Murphy, Caltrain's communications director, said the new timeline will allow the Trump administration time to make its decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We think it will be approved and we'll be able to move this project forward,\" Murphy \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/forum/2017/02/23/transportation-advocates-imagine-caltrains-future-as-trump-administration-delays-funding/\">told KQED's \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em> last Friday\u003c/a>. \"If we aren't able to do that for some reason, we would need to think about alternative sources of funding and we would have that conversation when the time is appropriate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Murphy said one factor that weighs in favor of the project is that it \u003ca href=\"http://www.caltrain.com/Assets/Caltrain+Modernization+Program/Electrification/CalMod+Jobs.pdf\">would create 9,600 jobs in 15 states\u003c/a>. The transit agency has launched \u003ca href=\"https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/support-9600-american-jobs-tell-fta-approve-funding-caltrain-electrification\" target=\"_blank\">a petition\u003c/a> that urges the president to give the green light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Trump hasn't publicly laid out a transportation agenda, he \u003ca href=\"http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article132002204.html\" target=\"_blank\">has hinted\u003c/a> that his infrastructure goals would include high-speed rail. But there have been reports that the administration may take a page from \u003ca href=\"http://solutions.heritage.org/the-economy/transportation/\" target=\"_blank\">a proposal\u003c/a> by the conservative Heritage Foundation and \u003ca href=\"http://usa.streetsblog.org/2017/01/19/trumps-first-budget-may-zero-out-federal-transit-funding/\" target=\"_blank\">gut transit funding\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wunderman of the Bay Area Council said he has had conversations with House Republican Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield, who agreed Caltrain electrification is a \"viable and valued project,\" but opposes it because of its ties to high-speed rail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O'Connor said previous threats to cut federal transit funding have split the Republican caucus because \"many Republican elected leaders have served as mayors and supervisors before joining Congress and realize how important it is to have federal investment in transportation infrastructure.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The delegation, which is seeking a meeting with Transportation Secretary Chao, plans to make it clear to both Republicans and Democrats how important the Caltrain electrification funding is to Silicon Valley and in promoting new economic corridors and facilitating commerce, said O'Connor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We do think it's a very strong argument with many Republicans who don't agree with the Heritage Foundation's recommendations precisely,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11336507/with-caltrain-project-in-danger-bay-area-delegation-plans-lobbying-trip-to-d-c","authors":["214"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_8","news_13","news_1397"],"tags":["news_307","news_510"],"featImg":"news_11336508","label":"news_72"},"news_10919706":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10919706","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10919706","score":null,"sort":[1459811632000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"senators-ask-tough-questions-about-high-speed-rail","title":"Senators Ask Tough Questions About High-Speed Rail","publishDate":1459811632,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>A California Senate committee got its chance today to take a closer look at the status of the state's high-speed rail project. The High-Speed Rail Authority recently released a \u003ca href=\"http://www.hsr.ca.gov/docs/about/business_plans/DRAFT_2016_Business_Plan_0201816.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">draft business plan\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the hearing, High-Speed Rail Authority Chair Dan Richard said construction on the first segment was shifted from a southern route between the Central Valley and Los Angeles to a northern route between the Central Valley and San Jose because it was less expensive and could generate significant private investment. But he says the train needs to be running to attract investors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They're looking for that first operating line,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rail Authority estimates it will cost about $20 billion to build the northern route, which Richard says could generate $8 billion to $10 billion in private investment. He said the segment could be operational by 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"yy6JDdo9X8DiVujUPaTJGOSQsO5m0m0M\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while the Rail Authority was touting the progress being made on the project, senators of both parties expressed concerns about financing. Republican Jim Nielsen says the evolution of the project make him uneasy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There have been so many changes, how can we find comfort?\" he asked. \"It seems like it's almost careening down the tracks.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrat Richard Roth questioned what the Rail Authority will do if the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3328#Post.20132020\" target=\"_blank\">cap-and-trade\u003c/a> program is not extended beyond 2020. According to the \u003ca href=\"http://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3394\" target=\"_blank\">Legislative Analyst's Office\u003c/a>, the authority is counting on nearly $18 billion in cap-and-trade revenues through 2050.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If in fact cap-and-trade goes away or is substantially changed to interfere with your ability to access the $17.8 billion or $18 billion that you need, what will we be left with at that point in time?\" Roth asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard said that's a question the project has always faced. He says even if the first segment is the only one to ultimately get built, it would still serve a purpose by increasing passenger rail service and freeing up freight capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The authority estimates it will take $64 billion to complete all of Phase I, which would run between San Francisco and Anaheim. The Initial Operating Segment -- the first part of Phase I -- would run between San Jose and Shafter. Phase II of the project is planned to connect the system to Sacramento in the north and San Diego in the south, but cost estimates and a schedule have not been released.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"State senators grilled high-speed rail officials about the project's latest draft business plan.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1459817838,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":13,"wordCount":419},"headData":{"title":"Senators Ask Tough Questions About High-Speed Rail | KQED","description":"State senators grilled high-speed rail officials about the project's latest draft business plan.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Senators Ask Tough Questions About High-Speed Rail","datePublished":"2016-04-04T23:13:52.000Z","dateModified":"2016-04-05T00:57:18.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"10919706 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10919706","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/04/senators-ask-tough-questions-about-high-speed-rail/","disqusTitle":"Senators Ask Tough Questions About High-Speed Rail","path":"/news/10919706/senators-ask-tough-questions-about-high-speed-rail","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A California Senate committee got its chance today to take a closer look at the status of the state's high-speed rail project. The High-Speed Rail Authority recently released a \u003ca href=\"http://www.hsr.ca.gov/docs/about/business_plans/DRAFT_2016_Business_Plan_0201816.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">draft business plan\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the hearing, High-Speed Rail Authority Chair Dan Richard said construction on the first segment was shifted from a southern route between the Central Valley and Los Angeles to a northern route between the Central Valley and San Jose because it was less expensive and could generate significant private investment. But he says the train needs to be running to attract investors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They're looking for that first operating line,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rail Authority estimates it will cost about $20 billion to build the northern route, which Richard says could generate $8 billion to $10 billion in private investment. He said the segment could be operational by 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while the Rail Authority was touting the progress being made on the project, senators of both parties expressed concerns about financing. Republican Jim Nielsen says the evolution of the project make him uneasy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There have been so many changes, how can we find comfort?\" he asked. \"It seems like it's almost careening down the tracks.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrat Richard Roth questioned what the Rail Authority will do if the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3328#Post.20132020\" target=\"_blank\">cap-and-trade\u003c/a> program is not extended beyond 2020. According to the \u003ca href=\"http://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3394\" target=\"_blank\">Legislative Analyst's Office\u003c/a>, the authority is counting on nearly $18 billion in cap-and-trade revenues through 2050.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If in fact cap-and-trade goes away or is substantially changed to interfere with your ability to access the $17.8 billion or $18 billion that you need, what will we be left with at that point in time?\" Roth asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard said that's a question the project has always faced. He says even if the first segment is the only one to ultimately get built, it would still serve a purpose by increasing passenger rail service and freeing up freight capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The authority estimates it will take $64 billion to complete all of Phase I, which would run between San Francisco and Anaheim. The Initial Operating Segment -- the first part of Phase I -- would run between San Jose and Shafter. 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