Compare these two reports, filed just over a month apart, about California’s “high speed” rail system, now underway in the Central Valley:
- Bullet train no bonanza for Valley eminent domain attorneys (The Business Journal, March 19, 2015)
- High-speed rail escalates eminent domain legal battles for land (Fresno Bee, April 20, 2015)
And here’s a report on an aging mass transit system, BART (there are lessons here for HART, Honolulu’s fledgling municipal rail transit authority):
- BART looking to 2016 voters for property tax increase to fix ailing system (Daniel Borenstein, Contra Costa Times)