Posted on 01/12/2012 6:54:45 PM PST by SmithL
Roelof van Ark, chief executive officer of the California High-Speed Rail Authority, announced this afternoon that he is quitting, the latest setback for the state's beleaguered campaign to build a nearly $100 billion rail network in California.
His resignation, announced at a board meeting in Los Angeles and effective in two months, comes at a critical point for the project, with rail officials bidding for Legislative approval to start construction in the Central Valley this fall. Public opinion about the project has fallen sharply, according to a recent Field Poll, and the Legislature is highly skeptical.
Minutes after van Ark's announcement, Tom Umberg announced that he is stepping down as chairman of the rail board, though he will remain a member of the board. Umberg is to be replaced next month by Dan Richard, an adviser Gov. Jerry Brown appointed to the board last year.
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What a nightmare. I have no desire for HSR and I sure don’t want to get further in debt paying for it.
What a nightmare. I have no desire for HSR and I sure don’t want to get further in debt paying for it.
Oh poor Harry Reid.
He may have to take a bath on all the cheap land he bought anticipating HSR.
That’s a shame.
You’re right! How selfish of me. What should we get the man who almost flushed California down the toilet single-handedly? Maybe a Pullman car model with his own gold-plated crapper?
I thought he already had one of those.
Not only Dingy. I would suspect a whole lot more of politicians and their lackeys will be whining if it falls through.
Poor willie green, he has probably committed suicide,
Looks like the High Speed Railroad is derailing itself. Good. Another fiscal fiasco in the crapper.
Wheeeeeeee!!!
Passengers to be determined at some future date...
Harry Reid is a piker compared to Arnold.
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