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 [...]

Monterey residents like to tell a story that may or may not be true, but is certainly plausible. A man is working the night shift at the front desk of a hotel downtown, near Fisherman’s Wharf. He gets a call from a guest who is complaining about the loud dogs that are barking all night [...]

Some of the most vocal critics of high speed rail have come from the Peninsula between San Francisco and San José, including the staff of the city of Palo Alto. So it’s worth considering their reaction to the 2009 Business Plan, as reported in Palo Alto online: Steve Emslie, Palo Alto’s deputy city manager who [...]