'If you want to take on High-Speed Rail, we're ready for you,' says Fresno councilmember

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A Fresno metropolis councilmember says the ongoing High Speed Rail task successful California volition beryllium capable to continue, contempt its critics, acknowledgment to the enactment it has from crossed the authorities and wrong the City of Fresno.

Councilmember Miguel Arias' comments connected Tuesday were made during the groundbreaking ceremonial connected a people separation astatine McKinley Avenue and Golden State Boulevard. Once built, the task would abstracted the intersection from the bid tracks. City officials accidental the determination volition marque the intersection safer and trim postulation congestion.

"The largest nationalist infrastructure task successful the state is acceptable - and has the 5th largest system successful the world. A governor, a authorities legislature, Democrats, independents and Republicans up and down the state, thousands of operation workers, and adjacent a Republican politician are acceptable to combat and support the High Speed Rail task against each enemies, overseas and domestic," said Arias.

Councilmember Arias besides spoke to the magnitude of clip it has taken for assorted High Speed Rail-related projects to beryllium built— stating that each 1 of them has improved adjacent nationalist infrastructure arsenic good arsenic obstruction transportation.

"If you privation to instrumentality connected High-Speed Rail, we're acceptable for you," said Arias successful a remark directed astatine the project's critics.

Fresno's Mayor Jerry Dyer besides addressed those against High Speed Rail, reminding them of the project's benefits.

"If you look around, from northbound to south, you tin spot however overmuch advancement that has been made by High-Speed Rail," said Mayor Dyer. "Or you tin perceive to the critics and speech astir 'is it ever going to beryllium done?' I take to look astatine the advancement and not perceive to the critics."

After this portion of the task is built, the McKinley Avenue and Golden State Boulevard people separation volition diagnostic a four-lane roadway that is besides acceptable to amended pedestrian and bicycle access.