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Just a few months after Rod Diridon dismissed the idea of tunneling an HSR station at his namesake station in San José, not only is the idea alive, but getting some (possible) legs. As the San Jose Mercury News explains, a “shallow” tunnel has emerged as an option for Diridon Station: From Highway 87 to [...]
Peter, a regular commenter here at the California High Speed Rail Blog, attended last night’s meeting in San José regarding the Diridon to Tamien segment, which runs through the Willow Glen neighborhood. There has been a lot of debate about how to construct this particular segment, including a desire for a tunnel, so this meeting [...]
Two California HSR news items are breaking today, and I’ll briefly cover both here. First up: the California High Speed Rail Authority reports that the coefficient that got the HSR critics all riled up was a typo: What appeared to be a glaring flaw in the state’s bullet train ridership forecasts was actually a “typographical [...]
In so many ways, HSR has to deal with the legacy of the 20th century while also serving as a solution to it. One example is the belief, widespread across California, that overpasses for roads or rails inherently produces blight. This isn’t an entirely unreasonable assumption. Many cities, in the Prop 13 era, have had [...]
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