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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 [...]
There are at least four families in Palo Alto who will be having a less joyous Thanksgiving this year – four families touched by the tragedy of suicide. This year, four teenagers have committed suicide by walking in front of Caltrain locomotives on the at-grade section of the tracks near Gunn High School. Now, a [...]
Once upon a time, Palo Alto was seen as a leader in sustainable planning in California. City leaders expressed and acted upon support for bicycle- and pedestrian-friendly communities, and backed mass transportation solutions from Caltrain to high speed rail (which the current council backed when they endorses Proposition 1A last year). Unfortunately, the vocal NIMBYs [...]
A new video animation of possible HSR implementations through Palo Alto has been circulating, and a link was posted to it in the comments on yesterday’s post. I thought it worth posting, as it looks quite a lot better than anything else we’ve seen: That being said, I cannot imagine that the depictions of the [...]
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