SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — As the board that oversees California's high-speed rail project approved plans for the first major sales of bonds in years, opponents announced they had filed another lawsuit seeking to delay the rail plan.
The high-speed rail board approved $3.2 billion in funding Tuesday for two segments, a 119-mile leg from Fresno to Madera and $600 million to electrify existing Caltrain tracks in the San Jose Peninsula area that will eventually connect with high-speed rail.
At the meeting, though, attorney Stuart Flashman announced he had submitted a new lawsuit challenging the legality of AB1889, a bill approved last year that changed previous laws to allow high-speed rail bonds to be spent on electrification.
Flashman says the Democratic-backed legislation fundamentally altered what voters approved in the 2008 high-speed rail bond.
