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High-speed rail CEO grilled over 'trust' issues

Original post made on Nov 5, 2010

The California High-Speed Rail Authority has failed to honor its earlier promises and is quickly losing the public's and the Legislation's trust, members of a state Senate subcommittee said Thursday during a contentious hearing on the rail project.

Read the full story here Web Link posted Friday, November 5, 2010, 12:37 PM

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Posted by Tristan
a resident of Menlo Park: Downtown
on Nov 5, 2010 at 8:00 pm

Here's a great example of what HR will bring to us. Enjoy while you can.

Web Link

This was presented at the Morgan Hill HSR meeting Nov 3.


Posted by Menlo Voter
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Nov 6, 2010 at 6:57 am

"the rail authority...has no plan in place for paying for funding the $43 billion project."

That's great. Let's start building even though we don't know where the money will come from. Brilliant!

"Auditors reviewed 22 invoices and found errors or discrepancies in 20 of them."

That's 91% of the bills folks. If I had that many errors in my billings I would quickly be out of business. And remember, the rail authority hasn'r even put a shovel in the ground.

One word: BOONDOGGLE


Posted by EFCA
a resident of another community
on Nov 6, 2010 at 11:12 am

Tristan,

That video is totally rigged. The noise was turned up to make it sound worse than it really is. At 1:42 in the BOGUS video, it shows a Chinese train wizzing by. Here is the actual video: Web Link
A lot quieter.

I wonder if the poster/maker of the video got permission to use all the films in his creation. Otherwise, it's illegal.


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