abstract:The California High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) is a California state agency established pursuant to the California High-Speed Rail Act (S.B.
The project's godfather is Democratic Congressman Jim Costa, who as a state senator in the 1990s wrote legislation creating California's High-Speed RailAuthority and helped plan the 500-mile route between San Francisco and Anaheim.
Mr Diridon, chairman emeritus of the California High Speed RailAuthority, was addressing like-minded folk at the annual meeting of the Midwest High Speed Rail Association.
The biggest such change is to transfer day-to-day operations from the High-Speed RailAuthority (HSRA), set up to oversee the project, to the California Department of Transportation.