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Palo Alto mayor Pat Burt is calling for a delay in the HSR planning process, in this case asking for double the amount of time currently planned to review the upcoming Alternatives Analysis for the Peninsula segment:
Mayor Pat Burt said the city council’s high-speed rail subcommittee this week decided to send a letter asking the [...]
Two California HSR news items are breaking today, and I’ll briefly cover both here.
First up: the California High Speed Rail Authority reports that the coefficient that got the HSR critics all riled up was a typo:
What appeared to be a glaring flaw in the state’s bullet train ridership forecasts was actually a “typographical error,” an [...]
Although we had expected the question of who gets the HSR stimulus to be settled by the FRA when the awards were made last month, we now know that was just the start of an ongoing process to get those funds translated into steel in the ground. California has either $1.825 billion or $2.25 billion [...]
It was a very interesting (and long) evening in Palo Alto, with lots of fodder for blog commentary. I’m going to have to keep some of this brief for now in order to get through it all, and will expand on certain points in posts over the weekend.
Some key things that we learned from the [...]
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