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High Speed Rail Authority, Santa Clarita Valley Leaders To Meet Tuesday

California High Speed Rail Authority officials are planning to meet with Santa Clarita Valley, Palmdale, Acton and Agua Dulce leaders, officials said Thursday.


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“These meetings are with representatives of various communities along the proposed alignments in the Palmdale to Burbank Project Section,” said Adeline Yee, information officer with the California High Speed Rail Authority. “The goal is to engage in an in-depth discussion and get constructive feedback in a small group setting.”

While the public is invited to attend the event, only a small group of speakers have been asked to provide Santa Clarita community input at the event.

State Assemblyman Scott Wilk, R-Santa Clarita, posted this picture to Twitter Thursday morning.  Wilk, along with Santa Clarita City Council members, has been openly against the High Speed Rail Project

State Assemblyman Scott Wilk, R-Santa Clarita, posted this picture to Twitter Thursday morning. Wilk, along with Santa Clarita City Council members, has been openly against the High Speed Rail Project

“They are in addition to the large public meetings that we’ve hosted in the past year, and will continue to host this coming year,” Yee said.

The next meeting is set to be held Tuesday, March 3 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the Santa Clarita Activities Center in Canyon Country.

Santa Clarita Chamber of Commerce and City Council members, along with other Santa clarita Valley leaders, have been invited to provide input, Yee said.

“I’m very happy to have the stakeholder meeting out here in order to reiterate the fact we want them to continue to study the direct route from Burbank Airport to Palmdale which is under the forest — a tunnel under the forest,” said Santa Clarita Mayor Marsha McLean. “We want a route to completely bypass Santa Clarita and would be the least environmentally harmful to us and to resident, churches and schools.”

McLean and Santa Clarita City Councilman TimBen Boydston, who are both members of the city’s Ad-Hoc High Speed Transportation sub-committee, are planning to attend the meeting.

“We know that it is not a secret that the City Council, as a whole, is opposed to any alignment that goes through the Santa Clarita Valley,” Boydston said. “We’re planning another organizational meeting to get the various cities municipalities and areas together so we can have our voice heard cohesively.”

The California High Speed Rail Authority is responsible for planning, designing, building and operation of the proposed High Speed Rail Project supported by Governor Brown, planned to run from San Francisco to the Los Angeles basin, according to a news release.

The proposed system eventually would extend to Sacramento and San Diego, totaling 800 miles with up to 24 stations.

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7 comments

  1. where is this meeting? the location seems to printed nowhere.

    • The next meeting is set to be held Tuesday, March 3 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the Santa Clarita Activities Center in Canyon Country. I apologize for the location not being in the story.

  2. WHERE? Where will this meeting be held? At the Santa Clarita city council chambers?

    • The next meeting is set to be held Tuesday, March 3 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the Santa Clarita Activities Center in Canyon Country. I apologize for the location not being in the story.

  3. That’s nice of the mayor of Santa Clarita to want to run the train under OUR community in the Angeles National Forest and surrounding towns. Well, not going to happen. We have gone to war with this thing.

  4. At least the city I live in, Santa Clarita is going to have nothing to do with this giant waste of time and taxpayer money, to build a mostly low speed rail to nowhere for a route already served by air travel and being someone who does go to the bay area, the drive from Santa Clarita in comparison to either burbank or LAX to San Jose is almost always the same 5 hours total travel.

    This ridiculous train will be 7 hours when you add in the security and etc…

    Santa Clarita wanting this thing to bypass the city is a good decision.

  5. SCV: Always on the wrong side of the political, environmental, and or transportation-related argument

    Not cool.

    You can’t compare high-ish speed rail to air travel without accounting for the energy involved as it relates to the potential passenger capacity; Not to mention the business potential being overlooked by such a fearful, biased electorate.

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Jessica is an award-winning journalist, photographer, videographer and artist. She has worked with news organizations including NBC Los Angeles, KHTS AM 1220, and the Pierce College Roundup News. She is studying to receive a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism with an emphasis on Photojournalism and a minor in Communications at California State University, Northridge. She has studied and worked in many fields including filmmaking, journalism, studio photography, and some graphic design. She began her journalism journey at the Arroyo Seco Conquestador News Network and the Saugus High School News Network.