Remember the litigation against the High-Speed Rail Authority to study an alternative route? The final EIR has been released and the city wants a platform with no parking, a portable station building, and no covered platforms. Even worse, because there are no existing tracks at F St and Golden State Avenue. This temporary station requires the construction of close to a billion dollars of track with no actual station building in Bakersfield!

This temporary station will be operational for up to 15 years ... with the following fine print. "Planned redevelopment surrounding the F Street site as described in the Bakersfield Vision Plan may influence the need to construct the full buildout station"

In other words, if development doesn't occur around this platform, they are not committed to building a full station ... ever.

Please help us stop this madness and get a station that Bakersfield deserves and was promised next to Amtrak.

Please Take 2 Minutes To Send 1 Email Today!!

To: boardmembers@hsr.ca.gov

Cc: drichard@hsr.ca.gov

Subject: Public Comments for the Oct 16, 2018 Board Meeting - Agenda Item #1 and #3

Key Points: 

1) Please indicate that you support/prefer the May 2014 Project with a station at Truxtun Avenue

2) Please state that you oppose the Locally Generated Alternative (LGA) with a station at F Street

3) Indicate that the interim station proposal at F St was not part of the draft EIR available to the public and that you have never been able to comment on this change. 

4) Request that the the High-Speed Rail Authority DOES NOT approve LGA and DOES NOT certify the Supplemental Environmental Impact Report (EIR)

--------------- MEETING NOTICE --------------- 

The California High-Speed Rail Authority will be meeting in Bakersfield at the City Council Chambers at 10 AM on Tuesday October 16th, 2018. Everyone is welcome to attend and encouraged to submit public comments. 

PLEASE SUBMIT COMMENTS EITHER IN PERSON, ELECTRONICALLY, OR BOTH.