Victor A. Patton, Author at The Modesto Focus

A new report by California’s High-Speed Rail Authority suggests the state could save billions of dollars by resequencing the planned Bakersfield-to-Merced segment of the bullet train. That could include eliminating Merced as an initial operating stop on the bullet train route, despite longstanding plans going back more than a decade to build a station in […]

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