Shishmaref School cross country team members, Madalynn Snell, 12, from left, Elmer Elliott, 9, and Kenneth Itchoak, 11, train under coach Amy Eningowuk, who also teaches second grade at the school in Shishmaref, Alaska, Monday, Oct. 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
, and officials need to come up with a financing plan for the Central Valley segment by mid-2026, according to the inspector general’s office overseeing the project.Garth Fernandez, Central Valley regional director for the California High-Speed Rail Authority, talks about the Cedar Viaduct, Tuesday, April 15, 2025, in Fresno, Calif. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)
Garth Fernandez, Central Valley regional director for the California High-Speed Rail Authority, talks about the Cedar Viaduct, Tuesday, April 15, 2025, in Fresno, Calif. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)“The managers of the project were in trouble from the very beginning because they never had the financing – certainly not stable and predicting financing — that they would have needed to manage the project efficiently,” said Lou Thompson, who led a peer review group that analyzes the state’s high-speed rail plans.Losing money from the federal government “would require a real hard rethinking of what do we do to survive the next four years,” he said.
Rail leaders are in talks with Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration and state lawmakers on what will be needed to secure private investment, Choudri said, adding that without the private sector money the state may have to take out federal loans or issue new bonds. At an industry forum in January, private investors expressed interest in the project but need some form of security, he said.Choudri is pushing Newsom and lawmakers to consider a program that would eventually commit the state to paying back private investors, possibly with interest. That would give the state more time to cover the cost.
The Tied Arch Bridge construction site, which will take high-speed trains over State Route 43, is shown in an aerial view, Tuesday, April 15, 2025, in Fresno County, Calif. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)
The Tied Arch Bridge construction site, which will take high-speed trains over State Route 43, is shown in an aerial view, Tuesday, April 15, 2025, in Fresno County, Calif. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)while landing at Toronto’s Pearson Airport in February. All 80 people on board survived, but some people received minor injuries. Witnesses and video from the scene
so hard that its right wing was sheared off. Investigators said when trying to determine the cause, they would consider the weather conditions and the possibility of human error.— Earlier this month, two commercial planes had to
at Reagan National Airport near Washington because of an Army Black Hawk helicopter flying near the Pentagon. The Armyall its helicopter flights in the area after this incident. It was a Black Hawk priority air transport from the same unit known as the PAT25 that collided with the passenger jet in midair in January.