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The middle of a severe recession led by collapsing real estate values may not seem like the best time to start talking about developing property around planned HSR stations. But the economy will eventually recover (even on the slow timescale forecast by many economists there will probably be real recovery between now and 2018) and [...]

Aug 10th, 2009 | Filed under Uncategorized

Note: Clem Tillier, who owns the Caltrain-HSR Compatibility Blog, kindly contributed artwork to this post. Unfortunately, I’m artistically challenged but I hope the cross-section drawings help to get the idea across. In a follow-up to Thursday’s welcome news that Palo Alto officials are waking up to the potential downsides of letting tunnel boring machines into [...]

Mar 19th, 2009 | Filed under Uncategorized

One aspect of yesterday’s extensive thread entitled “Of Lawsuits, Tunnels and Tall Trees” that I feel did not receive enough attention is the matter of knock-on effects of grade separation strategies and, that of where CHSRA will put the mid-peninsula station. Other than the tentative Hanford/Visalia/Tulare station, this is the only one that CHSRA has [...]

Feb 22nd, 2009 | Filed under Uncategorized