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Last month the San Mateo County Times reported on a poll showing large majorities of voters in the mid-Peninsula cities, including Menlo Park and Palo Alto, still supported the high speed rail project. That came as no surprise, given the fact that 60% of voters in San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties approved Prop 1A [...]
In a Sacramento courtroom today, Judge Michael Kenny indicated he intends to deny the request from the town of Atherton to reopen the Atherton v. CHSRA case the city mostly lost last year. According to a release sent out by the California High Speed Rail Authority: In a tentative ruling issued today, Sacramento Superior Court [...]
The Peninsula Cities Consortium, comprised of the cites of Belmont, Burlingame, Atherton, Menlo Park and Palo Alto, is considering a new “Core Message” that, if approved, would signal their demand to be given veto power over the project – and that the rest of California be potentially made to pay for an expensive tunnel. The [...]
Assemblymember Ira Ruskin, whose 21st State Assembly district includes the Peninsula rail corridor-straddling cities of Redwood City, Atherton, Menlo Park, and Palo Alto, is termed out this year and the three Democratic candidates to replace him in the heavily-Democratic district spoke about high speed rail to the Palo Alto Weekly: Rich Gordon has a simple [...]
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