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Earlier this week, the Union Pacific Railroad distributed to the media, particuarly the San Jose Mercury News, their letter to the Authority of April 23, 2010. In it they outline their most forceful position thus far of not cooperating with high speed rail. Significantly, their letter above asserts the following claims: No overpass or underpass [...]
Although the San Francisco-San José Alternatives Analysis dominated the news this week, the CHSRA board discussed a draft AA for another segment – Merced to Fresno. Two alignments were eliminated, and two will be carried forward for further study. The two that were eliminated (follow along on page 4 of this document for a map [...]
If you’ve ever been to Oakland or Berkeley, or driven through the MacArthur Maze just east of the Bay Bridge toll plaza, you’ve probably seen the massive freeway viaduct shown below in one of the few images I could find of it: View Larger Map The viaduct above the roadway (viewed from the transition road [...]
As high speed rail planning proceeds along the proposed SF-LA-Anaheim route, more details become known, and more potential conflicts and obstacles appear. That’s an inevitable aspect of planning a project this significant and this big. It’s also an unfortunate side effect of the CHSRA having been a sparsely-funded agency for so many years, making it [...]
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