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In a Sacramento courtroom today, Judge Michael Kenny indicated he intends to deny the request from the town of Atherton to reopen the Atherton v. CHSRA case the city mostly lost last year. According to a release sent out by the California High Speed Rail Authority:
In a tentative ruling issued today, Sacramento Superior Court judge [...]
Last month the California High Speed Rail Authority released a poll that showed 76% of Californians still supported the project. Sure, some of them had “concerns” about a project, but as we know, having “concerns” doesn’t mean opposition.
Some wondered whether the poll’s findings held evenly across the state – particularly on the Peninsula, where HSR [...]
Richard Florida is out with a new article in The New Republic about high speed rail’s role in the 21st century economy titled “The Roadmap to a High Speed Recovery”. In it, Florida returns to an argument he’s made before, that HSR is essential to a 21st century economy. But here he lays it out [...]
In San Francisco today, a group of top local and national political leaders gathered to break ground on the new Transbay Terminal – the first high speed rail station in California, and potentially the country (depending on whether you define the Acela as “high speed rail” or not).
Photo from Congressman George Miller
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