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FRESNO, Calif. -- Thursday, the Trump medication called for a compliance reappraisal into the California High-Speed Rail Authority implicit Central Valley construction.
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It's 1 Congressman Vince Fong believes is necessary.
"An orchard extracurricular of Bakersfield to a tract extracurricular of Merced is not what was projected to California voters successful 2,008. And present you look astatine the structural failures, the mismanagement of this project. Why would we proceed to determination precious payer dollars to the tune of billions and billions, billions and billions of dollars a twelvemonth to thing that's going to fail," said Fong (R-Bakersfield).
Newly elected Assemblymember David Tangipa agrees, saying he's not anti-infrastructure, but pro-accountability.
"We are disconnected track, and the information is, California volition person high-speed rail, but it won't beryllium this 1 the mode that this way is moving. I mean, we've got the fastest bid to obscurity close now," said Tangipa (R-Fresno).
Congressman Jim Costa admits the task is down schedule, and says helium unfastened to oversight.
"If the proscription caput wants to travel successful and recognize the challenges that we faced moving forward, the archetypal authorities successful the federation to physique existent state-of-the-art high-speed obstruction successful America, built by Americans, we invited that," said Costa (D-Fresno).
Former Fresno County supervisor Henry Perea present serves connected the High-Speed Rail Authority Board and agrees.
He says the task is moving guardant crossed the Valley, but admits advancement is not arsenic accelerated arsenic planned.
He besides blames the delays connected governmental challenges by those who privation to de-rail the project.
"They are going to beryllium looking for a crushed to propulsion that wealth back, truthful erstwhile radical arsenic the question arsenic to wherefore is it taking truthful agelong to physique the project, there's the answer. The reply is, we person a plan, we person a program for that 4-billion dollars, present that they are successful the process of moving towards pulling that back. Then we person to propulsion backmost too," said Perea.
Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer besides released this statement:
"The national authorities has the implicit close to behaviour an audit to guarantee each payer dollar contributed to [high-speed rail] is being spent successful an businesslike and due manner. I proceed to enactment high-speed rail, careless of who builds it, arsenic agelong arsenic it connects the Central Valley to the California economy."
Passengers are present not expected to beryllium capable to committee until betwixt 2030 and 2033.
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