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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 [...]
One thing that’s become clear since the passage of Prop 1A one year ago is that the project’s opponents have learned from their defeat. Instead of launching a frontal assault on the concept of high speed rail, which a clear majority of Californians support, they’ve decided to focus on generating local opposition along the route [...]
As the decision point for awarding $8 billion in federal HSR stimulus nears, and with some $50 billion in applications submitted, California’s federal representatives are making a strong push to ensure California gets a significant portion of those funds: Employing every tool of persuasion from gift books and phone calls to hallway chats and high-level [...]
Applications for Phase I of federal HSR stimulus funds were due yesterday, and California’s request totaled $1.1 billion, focused on the Transbay Terminal train box: $400 million of the application sent Monday would go toward a “box” to be built 100 feet below the redeveloped Transbay Terminal that would contain a future station for high-speed [...]
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