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I’m not affiliated with Move California or any other advocacy group, I’m just tired of our legislature’s inaction.

Background on the issue: There’s 1,800+ utility relocations needed for just the first 119 mile segment. The entire project connecting San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, and Sacramento will be around 800 miles long. Every single utility relocation needs the utility owners approval. And as the Inspector General found in their February 2025 Report, utility owners have caused “significant” delays by being “unresponsive” for months at a time. The Inspector General stated, there is “little incentive for utility owners to engage in the process in a timely manner”.

One example in the report was a canal relocation in Kern county that should've taken 6 months to plan and complete. Instead it took over 2 years just to plan it, because the utility owner was slow to respond. These delays have set back the project by years and have increased the cost by billions due to inflation and property value increases in segments they haven’t yet started.

Petitions: Move California along with Move LA and Transbay Coalition are petitioning the California government (here and here) to put a stop to these delays:

> Require PG&E and other utilities to quickly collaborate with the California High-Speed Rail Authority (CAHSR) so that utility equipment that impedes the high-speed rail can be relocated soon. While nearly 2,000 utility conflicts have been resolved, the project faces hundreds more. Each conflict has the ability to delay the project by several years.

The Inspector General recommended the same thing back in their February 2025 Report:

> To improve the Authority’s ability to engage with third parties and complete early works activities in a timely manner, the Authority should seek the assistance of the task force on third parties and work with state lawmakers to identify specific changes to statute that it believes will improve its ability to accomplish these activities, including the following potential changes to state law:

> Authorizing the Authority to promulgate regulations governing third-party review and approval timeframes for agreements and designs.

> Providing the Authority with the ability to proceed with necessary designs and utility relocations if third parties are non-responsive after the period of time specified in the Authority’s regulations.

In short, the IG recommended that the legislature give the CA HSR Authority the legal ability to regulate how quickly these utility owners negotiate. And if the utilities don't respond in the timeframe the Authority sets, then the Authority gets to move ahead on the utility relocation without the utility owners consent.

And here's the CA HSR Authority CEO talking about this same issue:

> Third-Party Streamlining, this issue of having no control over our destiny, for utilities to get in the way and not letting us build on time, is the most impactful thing in a negative way that happened to this program from the beginning. Cannot understand why we cannot get that done. And what I said before I'm gonna repeat it again: that if this is not solved, then the direct relationship between the cost and the schedule, and these third parties not getting out of the way on time or have no schedule control, then that other thing called cost and schedule cannot stay in the same place. They are just directly related. And so if it remains not solved this year, the impact of that on our budget at minimum is somewhere between 7 and 9% of whatever the total cost is. And I'm not talking about that we have taken into account the commodity prices, the aluminum, the copper, the steel, the aggregates, I'm talking about just the inflation escalation of delay of one year puts the program on top of whatever the funds we're asking for by 7 to 9% increase, because these issues remain in the way.

TL;DR: The legislature has not followed the Inspector General’s recommendation on their own. They need you to push them to it. If you want them to stop wasting years and billions of taxpayer dollars, sign the petitions. Email your legislators. If you don’t want to write your own email, you can copy the letter in the first petition link. On top of emailing your own legislators, here are the emails of the Assembly’s Transportation Committee:

• Lori.Wilson@asm.ca.gov
• Laurie.Davies@asm.ca.gov
• Cecilia.Aguiar-Curry@asm.ca.gov
• Patrick.Ahrens@asm.ca.gov
• Juan.Carrillo@asm.ca.gov
• John.Harabedian@asm.ca.gov
• Gregg.Hart@asm.ca.gov
• Josh.Hoover@asm.ca.gov
• Corey.Jackson@asm.ca.gov
• Tom.Lackey@asm.ca.gov
• Alexandra.Macedo@asm.ca.gov
• Diane.Papan@asm.ca.gov
• Rhodesia.Ransom@asm.ca.gov
• Chris.Rogers@asm.ca.gov
• LaShae.Sharp-Collins@asm.ca.gov

I’m not affiliated with Move California or any other advocacy group, I’m just tired of our legislature’s inaction.

Background on the issue: There’s 1,800+ utility relocations needed for just the first 119 mile segment. The entire project connecting San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, and Sacramento will be around 800 miles long. Every single utility relocation needs the utility owners approval. And as the Inspector General found in their February 2025 Report, utility owners have caused “significant” delays by being “unresponsive” for months at a time. The Inspector General stated, there is “little incentive for utility owners to engage in the process in a timely manner”.

One example in the report was a canal relocation in Kern county that should've taken 6 months to plan and complete. Instead it took over 2 years just to plan it, because the utility owner was slow to respond. These delays have set back the project by years and have increased the cost by billions due to inflation and property value increases in segments they haven’t yet started.

Petitions: Move California along with Move LA and Transbay Coalition are petitioning the California government (here and here) to put a stop to these delays:

> Require PG&E and other utilities to quickly collaborate with the California High-Speed Rail Authority (CAHSR) so that utility equipment that impedes the high-speed rail can be relocated soon. While nearly 2,000 utility conflicts have been resolved, the project faces hundreds more. Each conflict has the ability to delay the project by several years.

The Inspector General recommended the same thing back in their February 2025 Report:

> To improve the Authority’s ability to engage with third parties and complete early works activities in a timely manner, the Authority should seek the assistance of the task force on third parties and work with state lawmakers to identify specific changes to statute that it believes will improve its ability to accomplish these activities, including the following potential changes to state law:

> Authorizing the Authority to promulgate regulations governing third-party review and approval timeframes for agreements and designs.

> Providing the Authority with the ability to proceed with necessary designs and utility relocations if third parties are non-responsive after the period of time specified in the Authority’s regulations.

In short, the IG recommended that the legislature give the CA HSR Authority the legal ability to regulate how quickly these utility owners negotiate. And if the utilities don't respond in the timeframe the Authority sets, then the Authority gets to move ahead on the utility relocation without the utility owners consent.

And here's the CA HSR Authority CEO talking about this same issue:

> Third-Party Streamlining, this issue of having no control over our destiny, for utilities to get in the way and not letting us build on time, is the most impactful thing in a negative way that happened to this program from the beginning. Cannot understand why we cannot get that done. And what I said before I'm gonna repeat it again: that if this is not solved, then the direct relationship between the cost and the schedule, and these third parties not getting out of the way on time or have no schedule control, then that other thing called cost and schedule cannot stay in the same place. They are just directly related. And so if it remains not solved this year, the impact of that on our budget at minimum is somewhere between 7 and 9% of whatever the total cost is. And I'm not talking about that we have taken into account the commodity prices, the aluminum, the copper, the steel, the aggregates, I'm talking about just the inflation escalation of delay of one year puts the program on top of whatever the funds we're asking for by 7 to 9% increase, because these issues remain in the way.

TL;DR: The legislature has not followed the Inspector General’s recommendation on their own. They need you to push them to it. If you want them to stop wasting years and billions of taxpayer dollars, sign the petitions. Email your legislators. If you don’t want to write your own email, you can copy the letter in the first petition link. On top of emailing your own legislators, here are the emails of the Assembly’s Transportation Committee:

• Lori.Wilson@asm.ca.gov
• Laurie.Davies@asm.ca.gov
• Cecilia.Aguiar-Curry@asm.ca.gov
• Patrick.Ahrens@asm.ca.gov
• Juan.Carrillo@asm.ca.gov
• John.Harabedian@asm.ca.gov
• Gregg.Hart@asm.ca.gov
• Josh.Hoover@asm.ca.gov
• Corey.Jackson@asm.ca.gov
• Tom.Lackey@asm.ca.gov
• Alexandra.Macedo@asm.ca.gov
• Diane.Papan@asm.ca.gov
• Rhodesia.Ransom@asm.ca.gov
• Chris.Rogers@asm.ca.gov
• LaShae.Sharp-Collins@asm.ca.gov

New LINXS monthly report here.

Pushed back the PSA (Public Service Availability) date to December 7th. For anyone that had October or November on their bingo card, better luck next time. This is the 7th time in 8 months they've pushed back the PSA.

• July 2026, they claimed opening December 7th, 2026
• June 2026, they claimed opening November 5th, 2026
• May 2026, they claimed opening October 6th, 2026
• April 2026, they claimed opening September 22nd, 2026
• March 2026, they claimed opening September 22nd, 2026
• February 2026, they claimed opening August 3rd, 2026
• January 2026, they claimed opening June 9th, 2026
• December 2025, they claimed opening May 13th, 2026
• November 2025, they claimed opening May 4th, 2026
• October 2025, they claimed opening May 4th, 2026

Once again LINXS, in their obviously biased report, blames the PSA pushback on LAWA. Nandert goes into this in his video here [at 18:10] (https://youtu.be/3FOZ7R9bUBA?t=1090)

Edit: They also say the "30 day" System Demonstration test (which started over 4 months ago and was expected to be done in 60 days) is "scheduled to complete September 30, 2026." Shoutout to that one guy that told me it would be done any day now. But they've also previously given dates of June 30th and August 5th, so who knows if September 30th is real.

Place your bets on what next months PSA date will be.

In their last monthly report, they reported to be at 99.7% complete (page 15). And for the 4 months before that, they claimed to be at 99.6% complete. So presumably not much could have changed for them, and yet they haven’t released their new report yet.

Their monthly reports usually come out between the 13th and 19th of the month, posted under Continuing Disclosure. If the new report comes out on Monday the 24th, it’ll be just the 6th time out of nearly 100 monthly reports since 2018 that it was released after the 23rd of the month. A rare delay. So if not much is changing for them, what’s causing the hold up?

Two days ago Nithya Raman, in her tight race for mayor, pledged to ask the city attorney and state attorney general to investigate LINXS for extortion.

In the video, Raman says: “The main contractor for this project, LINXS, took advantage of ambiguous provisions in the contract to essentially extort the city for years. As mayor, I’ll ask our city attorney and our state attorney general to investigate this contractor for its actions.”

An investigation by the city attorney and state attorney general would go far beyond the LA City Council’s motion that simply asks LAWA to explain the delays and cost overruns, and whether the schedule is realistic.

If the upcoming monthly report had good news, like not pushing back the Public Service Availability (PSA) date, or announcing the completion of the “30 day test” (taking over 4 months despite originally being expected to finish after 2), then they would’ve released it earlier to turn down the political pressure. But instead, it’s looking like it’ll be one of their most delayed reports, despite being 99.6%+ completed for 5 months and minimal work remaining in the project. This delay signals more bad news, like another PSA push back, which they’re holding to announce after the heat has gone done a bit. The PSA has been pushed back 6 times in the last 7 reports.

• June 2026, they claimed opening November 5th, 2026
• May 2026, they claimed opening October 6th, 2026
• April 2026, they claimed opening September 22nd, 2026
• March 2026, they claimed opening September 22nd, 2026
• February 2026, they claimed opening August 3rd, 2026
• January 2026, they claimed opening June 9th, 2026
• December 2025, they claimed opening May 13th, 2026
• November 2025, they claimed opening May 4th, 2026

Maybe I missed something else, but it seemed really important that Primus said something to the effect of "It doesn't matter that I killed [Hannan], because by the end of the year either we are on top or we're all dead!"

I'm not sure how far away the end of the year is, but this seems to establish an important timetable for something critical happening. That critical event could be the other houses making their own plays for the old throne, or something else. Primus called out each house for having their own machinations during his speech, but I don't believe we knew when each house would make their move until Primus killed Hannan.

Since this timetable seems like important information, I was surprised no one mentioned it when they all regrouped. Am I missing something? Did the players already know something big enough to destroy house Tachonis was going to happen by the end of the year? Side note, I also don't think anyone relayed what the other houses machinations were.

The new PSA date (Passenger Service Availability date) is October 6th, 2026. Quick refresher, LINXS has pushed back the PSA date almost every month since last year.

• May 2026, they claimed opening October 6th, 2026
• April 2026, they claimed opening September 22nd, 2026
• March 2026, they claimed opening September 22nd, 2026
• February 2026, they claimed opening August 3rd, 2026
• January 2026, they claimed opening June 9th, 2026
• December 2025, they claimed opening May 13th, 2026
• November 2025, they claimed opening May 4th, 2026
• October 2025, they claimed opening May 4th, 2026

The current System Demonstration (30 day test) is projected to be completed August 5, 2026. Although their last report said June 30th, so who knows, maybe this'll be another completion date that they'll continue to push back until 2028.

For those not in the know about the ongoing disputes between LAWA and LINXS, it starts on page 549 of the grand jury report.

Quick summary: According to the grand jury report, LINXS has been abusing 2 things to extort LAWA for money.

• First: The contract had a weakspot. It specified that work had to continue during disputes, but it did not specify the pace at which work had to continue. As the grand jury found, if the contractor just sent out one guy with a shovel, that satisfied the contracts requirements of work continuing during disputes.

• Second: The contractor used these work stoppages to imperil the Olympics deadline, forcing LAWA to pay additional costs via bs relief event charges. Normally LAWA would've been able to sue to reduce the charges or drop them altogether. But since that litigation, plus the work stoppages, would've pushed the opening past the Olympics, they had no choice but to pay them.

Full LINXS Monthly Report for May can be found here.

Good News: For the first time since November 2025, they have not pushed back their projected Passenger Service Availability (PSA) Date. They're still projecting September 22nd.

• April 2026, they claimed opening September 22nd, 2026
• March 2026, they claimed opening September 22nd, 2026
• February 2026, they claimed opening August 3rd, 2026
• January 2026, they claimed opening June 9th, 2026
• December 2025, they claimed opening May 13th, 2026
• November 2025, they claimed opening May 4th, 2026
• October 2025, they claimed opening May 4th, 2026

Bad News: Looking at the Executive Summary, they're still loudly claiming that LAWA is preventing them from finishing, and that they're contractually unable to start PSA until they've finished everything, including...landscaping. LAWA has already said this is bs, and they don't need landscaping to be finished for PSA to begin.

Monthly report here.

Edit: They're also expecting the System Demonstration Test to be completed June 30th.

I was inspired by a question on another sub, so I narrowed the scope to something more realistic. Is there a single season in the 90's or 2000's where Steph could have more makes in his career than the entire league at that time?

I went to BBREF and found that 1990 had the lowest average 3PM's per game out of those 2 decades. Then I went to the 1990 page, copied the Total Stats table into a Numbers sheet, and added up the 3PM's for each team.

The total Regular Season 3PM's for the league (27 teams) in 1990 was 4,829. Stephs current Regular Season 3PM's for his career is 4,248. Over his last 6 years he's made between 190 and 360 3PM's each year. So he'd need to play 2 or 3 more seasons at that pace to beat the 1990 league.

Edit: Found something else crazy. The 1990 NBA attempted 14,608 3's. Steph has attempted 10,073. 4,535 fewer attempts (about 31.04%), but only 581 fewer makes (about 12.04%). Wild.