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A few items for the weekend, many of them updates from previous items we wrote about during the week: The San José Diridon HSR tunnel lives, as Rod Diridon responds to San José Mayor Chuck Reed’s letter that the CHSRA will continue to study the underground station and tunnel, although it is a “longshot.” This [...]
That’s according to Henry Cord and Jean Dresden’s op-ed in today’s Mercury News: High-speed rail bureaucrats want to deny San Jose an underground train option, instead proposing tracks and station structures as high as nine stories towering over our community…. City leaders worked hard to persuade high-speed rail powers to route the rail through San [...]
UPDATE: Note that in fact the tracks from Diridon Station to a point called “Lick” 3 miles south, about where the tracks reach Monterey Highway, are owned by the Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board (PCJPB), as Rafael pointed out in the comments. I’ve updated the post to reflect that info. This weekend Peninsula residents are [...]
Yesterday, San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed and San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom issued a joint press release announcing the Bay Area region’s preference for stimulus and other HSR spending the Bay Area to be directed towards upgrades to the Caltrain corridor, the expansion of SJ Diridon Station, and the establishment of the new SF Transbay [...]
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