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In the wake of yesterday’s announcement that Madera-Corcoran be the starting point for HSR construction in California, project supporters in Merced, which was not included in the first segment, have expressed their outrage at the choice. Their primary concern is that the California High Speed Rail Authority staff assessment of the proposed starting point gave [...]
Yesterday’s Merced Sun-Star ran an op-ed from Central Valley Congressman Dennis Cardoza on high speed rail. In addition to rallying the public to support the project, he also weighed in on some important issues about the project planning in the Merced area. First, the big picture: Both locally and statewide, we are lagging behind as [...]
It was a long and busy weekend in LA at the California Democratic Party convention, which for me included a trip to the RailPAC meeting at MTA headquarters on Saturday morning. It was a very good and productive meeting, and I’ll say more about it in an upcoming post. I’m also playing catch-up on a [...]
A beautiful day here in Monterey – hope it is for you as well, wherever you might be in California (or elsewhere in the world). Some HSR links: Modesto Bee editorializes in favor of Merced’s Castle Airport for the HSR maintenance hub, pointing out that the site has the space to accommodate the trains and [...]
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