by Bob Walsh
Back
in pre-history, during the Schwarzenegger era, back in 2008, the voters
of the formerly great state of California approved the creation of the
High-Speed Rail Authority via ballot initiative. The interesting thing
is that performance requirements were written into Proposition 1 which
created the legal authority for the project. Those performance
requirements have not been met and without doubt will not be met.
Right
now a court challenge to the project asserts (correctly) that a piece
of legislation passed in 2016. AB1889, to weasel around the performance
requirements is legally invalid and the whole thing should be
shitcanned.
In any case
the matter was presented to a three-judge panel of the CA 3rd District
Court of Appeals on Monday. Whichever side loses will presumably appeal
to the California Supreme Court as there is a huge amount of money, and
therefore political power, involved in the case.
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