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Private firms question California high-speed rail funding



  • So the California High-Speed Rail Authority asked firms to suggest how to reduce costs, speed up construction and attract outside money.
  • Officials with the rail authority called the receipt of 36 responses a sign that the private sector is very interested.
  • The rail authority released the documents to The Associated Press under a Public Records Act request.
  • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Businesses that might bid to build a high-speed rail network across California are questioning whether there will be enough government funding to complete the complex and ambitious project.
  • In response it received 36 submissions from firms including global construction and engineering giants AECOM, Siemens and Parsons.


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Police: Construction crooner found dead in apparent suicide



  • This story has been corrected to show that Russo’s body was found one month, not two months, after he went missing.

  • Four years after Gary Russo’s brush with fame, the “Second Avenue Sinatra” vanished without a trace after leaving his home shortly after midnight on July 28.
  • NEW YORK (AP) — A karaoke-loving ironworker who briefly became a New York sensation for his serenades from a subway construction site has been found dead in an apparent suicide, a month after he disappeared from his Queens neighborhood, police said Friday.
  • Earlier this month, Russo’s car was found abandoned in the same neighborhood.
  • Russo was helping build the future Second Avenue subway under Manhattan’s Upper East Side in late July 2011 when he began using his lunch breaks to start singing in public, serenading onlookers.


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