The California High-Speed Rail Authority has a route. Now all it needs are tens of billions of dollars to actually build a high-speed passenger train system between Los Angeles and San Francisco. The authority’s board on Wednesday selected a preferred routing to carry the proposed line into the San Francisco Bay area from the Central Valley. The board chose to select a more direct but less populated routing through the Pacheco Pass over the more-populated Altamont Pass. The decision, while important to dozens of transit and transportation advocates who attended Wednesday’s meeting in Sacramento, will be moot unless the authority comes up with money to build the project. As it stands now, the project is supposed to be seeded with proceeds from a $9.95 billion general obligation bond measure that is currently scheduled for the state’s November ballot, though the final tab is expected to be much higher. But lawmakers have twice postponed the high-speed rail measure, which was originally to have appeared on the ballot in 2004, and the possibility remains that they will postpone the measure again, if not kill it outright.
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"Bond market investors are all wishing that April was behind us as they are anxious to hear the Fed's statement at its next FOMC meeting," noted BofA Global Research. "The statement should be no surprise as the market consensus has converged to 'higher for longer' rates.
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CDIAC's revamped website, which launches May 1, will offer accessibility to state and local debt from issuance through maturity; and the ability to create summary reports based on search features.
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The Governmental Accounting Standards Board is looking for feedback on disclosure requirements related to infrastructure projects.
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The MSRB is warning investors that the redemption of Build America Bonds under an extraordinary redemption provision could result in losses, especially for those purchased at a premium.
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With billions of federal funding available from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, one observer says it could be limiting the amount of municipal bonds issued by the sector.
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Teague, most recently an executive director of the municipal securities department at Morgan Stanley, will focus on surface transportation.
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