By Bee staff and news services in The Fresno Bee

April 21, 2016

California high-speed rail leaders proposed putting Merced back on the initial route but put off a vote Thursday on a revised business plan to give state officials more time to assuage lawmakers and citizens upset by the recent decision to first send the train to Northern California rather than the Los Angeles area.

Officials proposed changes at a California High-Speed Rail Authority meeting in San Jose, where the board was expected to adopt the $64 billion business plan. The plan calls for the bullet train to head from the San Joaquin Valley to San Jose rather than south to the San Fernando Valley as originally planned.