After a couple of long meetings with the HART folks at their headquarters, I finally finished a story I’d been kicking around for a while and wanted to get published before heavy rail construction starts.

The premise is that there was a lot of paperwork necessary before that work could begin — land acquisition, permitting, environmental reviews, etc. I asked the guy in charge of some of that paperwork, Lorenzo Garrido, to help me understand how it all works. (That’s his finger up there pointing at a map in one of the many documents he showed me.)

The result of those interviews is today’s story: Rail Construction End Of Long Line for Permits