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Big news today regarding the San Francisco-San José segment – the draft EIR, which was to be released next month, has been postponed: Robert Doty, director of the Peninsula Rail Program (a partnership of Caltrain and the rail authority), released a statement Friday afternoon saying that the decision by the FRA and the rail authority [...]
Some time in the future – probably sooner than people think, perhaps around 2020 – Palo Alto residents will look back at last night’s city council meeting, where the council voted to oppose an HSR station in Palo Alto, and shake their heads as they curse the short-sightedness of the 2010 council: Palo Alto doesn’t [...]
One of the underlying motives behind the HSR opponents – especially the Peninsula NIMBYs – is their belief that HSR will crash their property values, and that the highest priority of government is to protect their current property values. In short, whatever the needs of the rest of the state, all are secondary to preservation [...]
California High Speed Rail Authority CEO Roelof van Ark met with Peninsula city leaders yesterday to discuss the HSR project, and the headline news from the meeting was that tunneling wasn’t going to happen on the Peninsula: The boss of the California high-speed train project had a clear message to cities on the Peninsula on [...]
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