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CA High-Speed Rail Peer Review Group: Delay the Project


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A peer review group authorized by California voters to keep an eye on the state’s ambitious high-speed rail project wants the legislature to delay the start of construction. But the agency in charge of the project is rejecting the group’s analysis.


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(Sacramento, CA)
Tuesday, January 3, 2012

The California High-Speed Rail Authority hopes to start the project's $6 billion first phase by the end of the year.  But first, state lawmakers have to authorize a little under half that money - from bonds voters approved a few years back.  And this new report from the California High-Speed Rail Peer Review Group says:

HSRPEER1A / Kempton: "We can't at this time recommend that the state go forward with the appropriation of bond proceeds."

Former CalTrans Director Will Kempton chairs that group.

HSRPEER1B / Kempton: "The fundamental flaw that we see is that there's no identification of a long-term funding source that gets us to a point where we can begin to attract private investment and start moving the project forward in a positive way."

The High-Speed Rail Authority calls the report "deeply flawed" and "misleading" - and says a delay would put billions of federal dollars at risk.

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