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The hearing is underway – you can watch a livestream here. Right now as I post this, California High Speed Rail Authority board chairman Dan Richard is testifying. He is making excellent points. When he was at BART, “we never knew where we would get all our funding.” As he points out, “no regional transportation [...]
Tuesday is the State Senate High Speed Rail hearing in Mountain View – it’s at 7PM at the Center for Performing Arts, 500 Castro Street. Senator Joe Simitian has published the agenda for the hearing and it’s not inspiring confidence that this will be a fair fight: AGENDA: 7:00 p.m. – Brief Welcome: Senators Simitian, [...]
State Senator Alan Lowenthal, a Democrat, wants to go to Congress. He’s running in California’s 47th district, based in Long Beach. His fellow Democrats in Congress and President Obama support high speed rail. Tea Party Republicans in Congress are adamantly opposed to high speed rail and are working as hard as they can to defund [...]
The “Community Coalition on High Speed Rail,” a project of the notoriously anti-rail Planning and Conservation League and the outspokenly anti-rail PCL legal adviser Gary Patton, was originally founded to fight high speed rail on the Peninsula. And in a recent newsletter, CC-HSR explains that even though they’ve been fighting HSR in the Central Valley [...]
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