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Since at least 2008, Peninsula NIMBYs have seen their salvation in the Altamont Pass alignment. The logic here is that by crossing the bay at Dumbarton, and somehow getting out toward the Tri-Valley area and crossing into the Central Valley at Altamont instead of at Pacheco Pass, there won’t be any high speed trains at [...]
So the big announcement from Congresswoman Anna Eshoo, Senator Joe Simitian, and Assemblymember Rich Gordon is here and the gist is this: they oppose any aerial structure on the corridor, want tracks either at or below grade and fitting within the existing Caltrain ROW (without considering that the ROW has a variable width) and want [...]
Tuesday night, Menlo Park’s city council voted to join the high speed rail lawsuit that Palo Alto voted to file. Yet these lawsuits, as well as Palo Alto’s anti-HSR resolution, come just as HSR supporters are making their voices heard. Their elected leaders on these two city councils don’t appear to be making an effort [...]
Last night the Palo Alto City Council, which once made a name for itself by innovating policies to favor alternatives to driving (particularly with bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure, but also with its support for passenger rail), voted unanimously to pass an anti-high speed rail resolution. They went further by approving, by a 5-4 vote, an [...]
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