Lege Trend: Limiting Regulations for High Speed Rail

This week the State Public Works Board in California adopted condemantion resolutions for 16 more properties. Taking the total pending and potential eminent domain cases to 246 since December 2013. Fresno Bee

California’s experience is teaching us that high speed rail is a process. To move high speed rail along more quickly, the California legislature added a budget rider that will:

• reduce the volume of reports managers of the rail project are required to provide the Legislature
• change the qualifications required for certain members of the project’s peer review group by including people with experience in large infrastructure projects other than high-speed rail.

To those who say transperancy is cut, the California politicians say- it doesn’t harm transperancy, it enhances efficiency.

Sacramento Bee