Cities sue to block state’s bullet train 8/07/08
August 8th, 2008
An article in the San Mateo Daily News.
Noted by Stuart Flashman the attorney for the lawsuit:
Those disparate interests have joined forces in the lawsuit, which Attorney Stuart Flashman said he plans to file today in Sacramento County Superior Court.
“A lot of the concern is that the (authority’s) board wasn’t given accurate information about the relative impacts of the two alignments,” Flashman said. “The staff of the high speed rail authority, I don’t know if I’d say they cooked the books, but they tilted things very strongly to make it look like (the Peninsula alignment) had a lot less impact than it does.”
We have not said much about local issues such as how the construction and end result would affect those communities where the train is actually passing.
The CHSRA keeps saying how can you put a train through a City if they don’t want it? Maybe this lawsuit will make the issue clear. Thus far the CHSRA has basically ignored complaints from Peninsula Cities about its plans, using only objections from Livermore and Pleasanton in the North as being reasons why the Altamont route was rejected.
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