By Tim Sheehan in The Fresno Bee
July 12, 2016

A small contingent of high-speed rail supporters from Los Angeles spent Tuesday morning getting a firsthand look at construction in Fresno and Madera on the first stages of the state’s bullet-train project.

Jeremy Stutes, president of the nonprofit advocacy organization railLA, said the trek was an important part of his nonprofit’s effort to let people in Southern California know that the project is no longer simply an abstract plan on a map.