Source: New York Post
California’s already-delayed high-speed rail project faces yet another obstacle from local community organizations — this time near Merced, which sent a legal letter demanding the agency stop all work on a planned station in the rural town. Organizations including the California Rural Legal Assistance and the Community Alliance for a Sustainable Economy, accused the rail authority of violating state law by making changes to a rural stretch of the planned bullet train in a cease-and-desist letter sent last week. “The HSRA simply has no legal authority to start implementing the project in a way that deviatesfrom the one the Legislature and the public have funded for the last decade,” the letter read.
