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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 [...]
A few items for the weekend, many of them updates from previous items we wrote about during the week:
The San José Diridon HSR tunnel lives, as Rod Diridon responds to San José Mayor Chuck Reed’s letter that the CHSRA will continue to study the underground station and tunnel, although it is a “longshot.” This is [...]
That’s according to Henry Cord and Jean Dresden’s op-ed in today’s Mercury News:
High-speed rail bureaucrats want to deny San Jose an underground train option, instead proposing tracks and station structures as high as nine stories towering over our community….
City leaders worked hard to persuade high-speed rail powers to route the rail through San Jose via [...]
In the comments to yesterday’s post there was some discussion of the situation in south Santa Clara County, specifically around Gilroy. There’s an ongoing debate over where the tracks and the Gilroy HSR station should be located, a debate intensified by the fact that the San José to Gilroy route was the cause of the [...]
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