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An open letter to bullet-train board Chairman Dan Richard

Dan Richard was at it again in Saturday’s Los Angeles Times. LAT’s Ralph Vartabedian did a good job painting a downbeat picture of the bullet train’s prospects after negative legal and regulatory rulings. But he didn’t ask the question that blows

End game on bullet train: No $, no project — and no prospects for $

Chris Reed November 26, 2013

Sacramento Superior Court Judge Michael Kenny’s issued a double-whammy ruling Monday. He barred the use of bond funds for the state bullet-train project until it had adequate funding and complete environmental reviews for its first 300-mile segment. He also blocked

Attorney General’s Office: Bullet-train law not binding on Legislature

Chris Reed November 12, 2013

The bullet-train project doesn’t have a legal financing plan or adequate environmental rules, according to an Aug. 16 decision by Sacramento Superior Court Judge Michael Kenny. The state Attorney General’s Office doesn’t dispute that part of Kenny’s ruling. Instead, it

Friday hearing: Will judge ‘have the [guts]’ to shut down bullet train?

Chris Reed November 7, 2013

On Aug. 16, Sacramento Superior Court Judge Michael Kenny handed down a landmark ruling against the $68 billion California bullet-train project. Kenny held that the state High-Speed Rail Authority’s plan to begin construction in the Central Valley in coming months

Awful failure of CA inspectors points to public-private competence gap

Chris Reed November 3, 2013

A nightmarish story out of the Bay Area offers fresh evidence of the enormous gap in competence between the private and public sectors. This is from the San Francisco Chronicle: “The owner of the Castro Valley care home where residents

State bullet-train contracts appear to violate federal grant conditions

Chris Reed October 29, 2013

Sacramento Superior Court Judge Michael Kenny’s Aug. 16 ruling concluded that the California High-Speed Rail Authority would break state law if it proceeded with construction of a small first portion of the state’s bullet-train project without having full funding in

Smaller paper tears into bullet train; LAT maintains editorial silence

Chris Reed October 21, 2013

The Riverside Press-Enterprise last week published a crisp, definitive take on the bullet-train project's recent legal setbacks. Which indirectly raises the question: When will California's largest and most influential paper weigh in on this big issue? Here's part of the

Top officials live up (down?) to bullet train tradition

CalWatchdog Staff June 10, 2013

June 10, 2013 By Chris Reed When the Los Angeles Times broke the story in April that the California High-Speed Rail Authority had quietly changed the rules to de-emphasize the importance of technical competence among bidders for the first segment

Bullet train CEO on war path

CalWatchdog Staff May 9, 2013

May 9, 2013 By Chris Reed Last month’s Los Angeles Times’ bombshell about the state bullet-train project could scarcely have made those in charge of the California High-Speed Rail Authority look worse. The Times reported that in determining who would

How bullet-train fiasco maintains support, momentum

CalWatchdog Staff April 15, 2013

April 15, 2013 By Wayne Lusvardi It may be unpleasant to contemplate, but opposing California’s high-speed rail project with a green-eyeshade strategy that targets its estimated huge annual losses seems likely to be a loser. Project opponents may need to