Comments on: In same spirit as ‘courtesy flush,’ ‘courtesy vote’

By: Maybe they need a High-Speed Train CZAR

Maybe they need a High-Speed Train CZAR — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 19:36:22 +0000

Ms. Schenk did not call into the March 18 teleconference meeting. Peninsula rail deal approved 5-0 with one absence (Schenk) and three vacancies. Does this board have any legitimacy?

By: MJF

MJF — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 05:41:28 +0000

Yeah…I am still trying to figure out how on March 6, 2013 there were 5 High Speed Rail board members in PHYSICAL attendance and Mr. Rossi the 6th member was NOT physically in attendance and when Mr. Dan Richard discovered that Ms. Schenk was NOT going to vote with the MAJORITY in PHYSICAL attendance he blew it off and instead set up an EMERGENCY board meeting conveniently for today, March 18, 2013 at which time Ms. Schenk was NOT PHYSICALLY present and neither were most of the board members and guess what, they did the meeting via teleconferencing with board members in at least 3 if not 4 other locations and Ms. Schenk was in Eastern United States at another meeting and apparently was not able to be contacted to vote (conveniently for High Speed Rail) and I guess THEN they didn’t need her vote as they now had Mr. Rossi with his “yes” vote!!! Hmmmmm!!! I guess you just keep prolonging the vote to you get the RIGHT vote??

By: Hondo

Hondo — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 05:12:56 +0000

I still don’t see how this thing passes muster. By law, it was supposed to get from LA to Frisco in a few hours, averaging close to 200mph. And there was supposed to be private investment too. That was written into the law. How this project has passed any court test, someone explain to me. I don’t get it.
Hondo….

By: jimmydeeoc

jimmydeeoc — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:31:26 +0000

as one commenter to the original Fresno Bee story stated (re. the fact that this meeting was conducted via teleconferencing):

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Thank you, big spending HSR bigwigs (who have been telling us that HSR will be great for business travel), for personally demonstrating how you don’t even need HSR to conduct business by having a teleconference from three different locations in the state.

And this is in 2013, and it doesn’t even consider how much better teleconference technology might be 30 years from now, if HSR even happens to be built by that time.