The conversation hosted by Seamless Bay Area focused on the 2024 update to California's State Rail Plan, highlighting strategies to enhance efficiency in environmental reviews. Shannon Simonds explained the importance of thorough service development planning before starting environmental reviews, aiming for greater stakeholder engagement and project clarity. Participants Eric Goldwyn and Adriana Rizzo discussed the benefits of this structured approach, emphasizing it streamlines the process and mitigates delays in project timelines, aligning stakeholder interests early in planning to facilitate smoother environmental assessments.
The timeline and scope for doing the service development plans may seem larger than people are used to or comfortable with, but that is intentional—so that we are doing a lot of the good iterative planning that we need to do in engaging the host railroads.
The thing I like so much about CID is that it now puts the cart behind the horse. So you are doing your scoping intention.
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