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The Fresno Bee is out with a damning new editorial, saying that Representative Jeff Denham “Betrays the Valley”: In the Central Valley — where unemployment averages more than 15%, more than 40% in some cities — the [HSR] project would bring jobs and better connections with the coastal economies. It would relieve traffic congestion on [...]
Below is a guest post from Clem Tillier, who also writes the Caltrain-HSR Compatibility Blog If you try to reach Los Angeles from the Central Valley and points north, the Tehachapi Mountains stand squarely in the way. This mountain range, crisscrossed by earthquake faults, forms a great barrier to California’s high-speed rail network and [...]
Congressional Republicans and others opposed to the California high speed rail project had been hoping the Surface Transportation Board would give them a big win and block construction of the HSR project this summer. But that won’t be happening. Instead the STB today ruled in favor of the California HSR project, granting the section from [...]
Unemployment in Spain is at 27% and that means the whole country is struggling, especially under the weight of cruel, damaging, and entirely unnecessary austerity measures forced on the nation by external powers. In that situation it’s no surprise that Spain’s AVE high speed trains saw a dip in ridership in 2012. But it may [...]
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