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California High Speed Rail Authority Board chairman Dan Richard knows all too well about the airline industry. Serving as a Director on the Bay Area Rapid Transit District’s Board from 1996 to 2004, the East Bay resident and his colleagues clashed with United Airlines over the use of airport landing fees to build BART’s station [...]
New California High Speed Rail Authority board chairman Dan Richard has been busy in the Central Valley working to repair relationships and rebuild trust, especially with farmers who have been critical of the project: “I’m extremely unhappy with the kind of approaches that have been made to farmers and business people along the potential alignments,” [...]
In 2010 and 2011 there were a lot of tense discussions in the San Gabriel Valley regarding a possible high speed rail alignment, with concerns in cities such as Alhambra and Rosemead about losing homes to a rail route. (See here for a bit of background.) This past week, the Southern California Association of Governments [...]
In his Los Angeles Times column last Wednesday, Steve Lopez invited readers to weigh in on the high speed rail project. I wrote a detailed response for him and despite emailing the column to him, it appears he didn’t read it or any of the other points made by HSR supporters. At least, that’s the [...]
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