Shafter council rejects proposed changes to high-speed rail route through city

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Shafter council rejects proposed changes to high-speed rail route through city

Proposals for changing the way California's high-speed rail project would pass through Shafter went nowhere Monday night after local residents and business people called the plan unnecessarily disruptive.

Shafter rejects changes to High-Speed Rail plan

Shafter is hoping to find a new route for the California High-Speed Rail Authority to build the project through the city.  On Monday, the Shafter City Council unanimously rejected a change to High-Speed Rail’s 2018 plan and asked for a new route altogether.  The backstory: Seven years ago, Shafter reached a settlement with the authority following a lawsuit that alleged the authority did not do enough to mitigate environmental impacts in the prop…