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Yesterday’s Merced Sun-Star ran an op-ed from Central Valley Congressman Dennis Cardoza on high speed rail. In addition to rallying the public to support the project, he also weighed in on some important issues about the project planning in the Merced area. First, the big picture: Both locally and statewide, we are lagging behind as [...]
It was a long and busy weekend in LA at the California Democratic Party convention, which for me included a trip to the RailPAC meeting at MTA headquarters on Saturday morning. It was a very good and productive meeting, and I’ll say more about it in an upcoming post. I’m also playing catch-up on a [...]
Although the San Francisco-San José Alternatives Analysis dominated the news this week, the CHSRA board discussed a draft AA for another segment – Merced to Fresno. Two alignments were eliminated, and two will be carried forward for further study. The two that were eliminated (follow along on page 4 of this document for a map [...]
A beautiful day here in Monterey – hope it is for you as well, wherever you might be in California (or elsewhere in the world). Some HSR links: Modesto Bee editorializes in favor of Merced’s Castle Airport for the HSR maintenance hub, pointing out that the site has the space to accommodate the trains and [...]
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