California’s already-delayed high-speed rail project faces yet another obstacle from local community organizations — this time near Merced, which sent a legal letter demanding the agency stop all work on a planned station in the rural town.

Organizations including the California Rural Legal Assistance and the Community Alliance for a Sustainable Economy, accused the rail authority of violating state law by making changes to a rural stretch of the planned bullet train in a cease-and-desist letter sent last week.

“The HSRA simply has no legal authority to start implementing the project in a way that deviates

from the one the Legislature and the…

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