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This should come as no surprise, but Peninsula NIMBYs and high speed rail opponents are starting to organize in the Central Valley, hoping to block a project they don’t want in their own backyards by going where the action is: A group of Kings County citizens opposed to the state’s high-speed rail project are hosting [...]
Today’s San Francisco Chronicle has a big section on high speed rail. Some of the articles are up online, some won’t be until 3AM on Monday. Included are: Jim Wunderman, president and CEO of the Bay Area Council, writes about HSR as The Test of Our Generation: Today, our generation faces its test. Three years [...]
Three years after filing a frivolous lawsuit against the California High Speed Rail Authority, two years after they largely lost that case, and one year after they failed to get it reopened, a group of Peninsula cities are once again in court to block the project. The same judge, Michael Kenny of Sacramento Superior Court, [...]
A few months ago the “hybrid” or “blended” plan for mixing high speed rail and Caltrain on the Peninsula generated strong criticism from HSR advocates, including on this blog. However, it’s also clear that support is growing for the plan. The Bay Area Council’s recent endorsement of a hybrid plan and call for the MTC [...]
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