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The city of Fresno last week released a first draft of high speed rail station area concepts – the city’s initial effort to lay out the plan for the HSR station and the surrounding area. The station will be located along the Union Pacific tracks between Fresno and Tulare streets downtown, near the Fulton Mall. [...]
In the comments to yesterday’s post there was some discussion of the debate unfolding in Burbank over the placement of the proposed HSR station there. Let’s take a closer look. Burbank is slated to get an HSR station and it will be built near downtown Burbank, which is located immediately to the east of Interstate [...]
by Rafael The route CHSRA has chosen for the Bakersfield-Sylmar section runs through the Tehachapis, the Antelope Valley and Soledad Canyon. This is substantially longer than the direct route via Tejon Pass. The primary factors in favor of the longer route were total length of the tunnel system (21 vs. 34 miles), the ease of [...]
Clem has a excellent overview of the tunnel and urban development concepts offered by a group calling itself Innovation Place. You can see some of their award-winning presentation or read more about the plan at Palo Alto Online. Clem’s explanation of their ideas: The crown jewel of Innovation Place is a complete transformation of the [...]
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