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Just as the country celebrated the death of its most wanted criminal, Osama bin Laden, it learned that he was speculating about an attack on the American rail system: One idea outlined in handwritten notes was to tamper with an unspecified U.S. rail track so that a train would fall off the track at a [...]
Quite a lot to talk about from the last day or so, focused on the San Francisco to San José segment: • Caltrain’s “phased” plan: The biggest news is Caltrain’s call for an “initial operating segment” to be constructed on the SJ-SF rail corridor: CalTrain-9-13-2010 What this means isn’t exactly clear, and the devil is [...]
At yesterday’s California High Speed Rail Authority board meeting in San Francisco, staff – led by Peninsula Rail Project head Bob Doty – presented the Supplemental Alternatives Analysis report for the San Francisco to San José segment of the HSR project. Based on community feedback, particularly the desire to build the project within the existing [...]
Help me understand a letter being sent by the San Mateo Union High School District to the California High Speed Rail Authority that claims a tunnel is needed to avoid stirring up arsenic near Burlingame High School: The proposed high-speed rail project through the Peninsula will stir up contaminated soil near Burlingame High School and [...]
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