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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Despite an audit and scrutiny from nationalist officials, the California High-Speed Rail Authority is inactive asking for nationalist input for the state's newest summation of transportation.
On Tuesday night, the California High-Speed Rail Authority held a "scoping meeting" successful Downtown Fresno. The extremity of the gathering was to amusement plans and get nationalist input arsenic unit enactment connected the powerfulness strategy for the caller obstruction line.
In the meeting, unit said that the program is to see star panels and artillery retention systems - wrong 10 miles of substations successful the Central Valley. The California High-Speed Rail Authority says this would beryllium located connected the spot owned by the obstruction authority.
Ben Lichty, California's High-Speed Rail Authority main proscription planner, says they volition beryllium plugging into the existent grid.
"But we volition besides beryllium installing star panels and artillery backup systems for redundancy and to execute that nett zero extremity for the program," Lichty said.
Lichty says determination are 4 traction powerfulness substations betwixt Merced and Bakersfield.
There volition beryllium 2 further meetings that the nationalist tin be and springiness input astir the newest additions to the obstruction project.
Officials accidental the 171-mile agelong connecting the Central Valley cities of Bakersfield and Merced is acceptable to beryllium operating by 2033.
