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As people pore over the Draft EIR for the Central Valley HSR section, the usual suspects are beginning to scream “omg too expensive!” Nobody should be surprised to see anti-HSR legislators like Senator Alan Lowenthal and Republicans attacking the new cost estimates: We really need to re-examine what we’re spending and what we’re going to [...]
A big milestone was reached today when the California High Speed Rail Authority released the Draft Environmental Impact Reports for the Merced to Fresno and Fresno to Bakersfield sections of the project, the first ones that will be built with the combined state and federal funding. The Authority’s website has the full documents, and they’ve [...]
With the selection late last year of the Central Valley high speed rail segment as the first part of the LA-SF project to be built, it eased the pressure on the other stimulus-eligible segments to have their planning processes be done in time for the September 2012 stimulus deadline. Today the California High Speed Rail [...]
Redwood City councilmember and head of the San Mateo County Economic Development Association (SAMCEDA) Rosanne Foust has an excellent op-ed in Redwood City Patch this week calling support for high speed rail “California’s Sputnik moment,” a reference to President Barack Obama’s pro-HSR State of the Union address: Here in the Bay Area, we’re having our [...]
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