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This Thursday Californians For High Speed Rail is hosting an event at SPUR to examine the future of high speed rail and of Caltrain in San Francisco. Keynoting the event will be Assemblymember Fiona Ma, one of the key figures in getting high speed rail on the ballot and through the legislature. CA4HSR will also [...]
Californians For High Speed Rail has written to Mary Nichols, head of the California Air Resources Board, to urge her to support using cap-and-trade funds to help fund high speed rail: We encourage you to strongly consider applying a significant portion of Cap and Trade revenues to California’s high‐speed rail project as part of the [...]
At Tuesday night’s high speed rail hearing in Mountain View, a wide range of elected officials and organizational leaders came out to show their support for the project. Steven Maviglio collected many of the statements over at the California Majority Report. Some examples: San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed: “We appreciate efforts to continue studying alternatives [...]
Following up from Saturday’s post, we’re learning more about the $1.5 billion in cuts to high speed rail funding that President Barack Obama agreed to with the Republicans in Congress. First, the good news: this should not hurt existing programs: A $1.5 billion cut in high-speed rail funding, highlighted by Republican leaders in their budget [...]
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