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If you’ve ever been to Fresno, you might have noticed that while the Union Pacific trains operate on tracks immediately adjacent to Highway 99, BNSF trains operate in the middle of town, cutting through intersections and neighborhoods. Fresno residents would look with envy on what Palo Alto has to deal with, particularly since many of [...]
Just got back into Monterey after a nice trip back from Seattle aboard the Coast Starlight. I know there was some discussion in the previous post about that route and Amtrak more broadly. While this is intended as an open thread, I’ll take my publisher’s prerogative to add some thoughts on this, with the experience [...]
by Rafael Contra Costa county has been left out of HSR plans so far, even though it has over a million residents. BART does serve both Richmond and the central part of the county, but traveling from Concord to San Francisco just to catch a train to LA is slow and inefficient. Martinez is on [...]
by Rafael the recent Initial Ruling on Atherton v. CHSRA underscored yet again that lines on a map are not at all the same thing as deeds to rights of way. The judge essentially signaled that the level of risk of eminent domain takings needs to be quantified at the program level, i.e. factor into [...]
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