SENATE VOTES TO DELAY RAIL BOND.Byline: Staff and Wire Services SACRAMENTO -- Legislation that would sidetrack a $9.95 billion high-speed rail High-speed rail is a type of passenger rail transport that operates significantly faster than the normal speed of rail traffic. Specific definitions include 200-320 km/h (125-200 mph) - depending on whether the track is upgraded or new - by the European Union and above 90 mph bond measure for the second time was approved by the state Senate on Monday without debate. By a 33-0 vote, senators approved a bill by Assemblyman Alberto Torrico Alberto Torrico has been a member of the California State Assembly since December of 2004 succeeding the term-limited Assemblyman John Dutra. He represents the 20th Assembly District which includes Fremont, Newark, Union City and Milpitas among other cities in the East Bay. , D-Fremont, that would remove the measure from this November's ballot and place it on the November 2008 ballot. The Senate's action sent the bill back to the Assembly for a vote on Senate amendments. Approval there would send the legislation to the governor's desk. Lawmakers initially placed the bond measure on the November 2004 ballot, then decided the state faced more pressing needs and bumped the bonds back to this year's ballot. After lawmakers decided to add more than $37 billion in transportation, flood control, school and housing bonds to this November's ballot, the high-speed rail measure became a casualty again. The proposal would generate about half the funding needed to build a rail line linking Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , Bakersfield, Fresno and San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden with trains running at top speeds of more than 200 mph. Between Los Angeles and Bakersfield, the trains would stop in Palmdale. The proposed alignment would follow Highway 58 from Bakersfield to Mojave, then run south along the Union Pacific railroad Union Pacific Railroad, transportation company chartered (1862) by Congress to build part of the nation's first transcontinental railroad line. Under terms of the Pacific Railroads Act, the Union Pacific was authorized to build a line westward from Omaha, Nebr. tracks through Lancaster, Palmdale and Soledad Canyon Soledad Canyon is a long narrow canyon / valley located in Los Angeles County, California between the cities of Palmdale and Santa Clarita. Soledad Canyon contains the localities of Vincent, Acton, Ravenna, and Agua Dulce. . Plans call for the system to be expanded so it also eventually reaches San Diego and Sacramento. |
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