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Note from Robert: the following post is from Kenya Wheeler, a graduate student in the Department of City and Regional Planning at U.C. Berkeley. Thanks to him for agreeing to write this post! The future of High Speed Rail took center stage at a crowded panel discussion with over 120 attendees on May 19th at [...]
The day after Japan’s Ambassador to the US pledged to pay half the cost of California HSR at a conference in Los Angeles, a delegation from China was in Fresno to look at the city and plans for HSR. Report from ABC/30 in Fresno: From CBS 47: Members of the China Railway Construction Corporation visited [...]
Over at the Fresno Bee, Tim Sheehan – who has become one of the state’s leading reporters on the high speed rail beat – has a good article on China’s role in possibly funding the California high speed rail system: China’s not alone. Eight nations have agreements with the California High-Speed Rail Authority to share [...]
The California high speed rail project had a turbulent year in 2010, but it undoubtedly finished on a high note, winning more federal funding and consolidating public support by selecting the first route that will be constructed. As we begin 2011, and prepare to swear in a governor who first brought the idea of HSR [...]
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