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We haven’t had much discussion at all lately of HSR in the San Diego area, so this San Diego Union-Tribune article on impacts to Miramar College is pretty timely: After a campus visit by rail planners last month, the High-Speed Rail Authority backed away from proposals to cut through or bridge over the Miramar College [...]

Oct 17th, 2011 | Filed under Uncategorized

Today the California High Speed Rail Authority is holding its monthly meeting in Los Angeles, in the board room of the Metro headquarters right next to Union Station. The agenda is here and a livestream of the meeting can be viewed here. Dana Gabbard of Streetsblog LA has a good overview of the meeting, including [...]

Mar 3rd, 2011 | Filed under Uncategorized

With the possibility that Jerry Brown might be elected to his third term as governor on Tuesday, it seemed worth taking a trip back to 1982. Brown was finishing his second term as governor and running for a seat in the US Senate against San Diego mayor Pete Wilson. Wilson won, but Brown left an [...]

Oct 29th, 2010 | Filed under Uncategorized

Despite the worst recession in 60 years, the United States of America remains the wealthiest nation on earth by quite a wide margin. And California is one of the wealthiest states in that country, with plenty of available wealth to build and operate a high speed train system from San Francisco to Los Angeles and [...]

Sep 19th, 2010 | Filed under Uncategorized