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The Peninsula isn’t the only place in Northern California where anti-rail activism is having an impact. Across the bay in Livermore, the City Council recently voted to oppose a downtown station in favor of the inferior I-580 alignment. This was a reversal of the Council’s earlier position, and as in Palo Alto, it came after [...]
With Curt Pringle’s recent resignation from the California High Speed Rail Authority board, Governor Jerry Brown had another opportunity to make an appointment to the board. Yesterday he announced his choice: Dan Richard. Richard and Brown have deep ties, as Richard served in the Brown Administration in the late 1970s and early 1980s as a [...]
Last month Californians learned something that those who followed state politics in the 1970s and early 1980s had already known: Governor Jerry Brown marches to the beat of his own drummer. He’s not someone who takes direction from the state legislature, and not someone who will sit there and simply ratify existing deals if he [...]
Although I wasn’t able to attend, by the accounts I’ve heard and read, yesterday’s Friends of Caltrain summit in San Carlos was a very worthwhile event that has at least sharpened the discussion about the options available for saving this vital service. Before discussing some of the possible funding sources, it’s worth taking a moment [...]
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