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This week the California High Speed Rail Authority announced it has adopted the hybrid alternative for the Merced to Fresno section of the high speed rail project. The route runs to the east of Madera, and is at least $500 million cheaper than several of the other alternatives on the table. From a CHSRA press [...]
This blog has repeatedly argued that because of a failed status quo – with unemployment in Fresno County of 15.8% – we cannot simply abandon efforts that would create jobs and reduce our costly dependence on oil because those efforts aren’t easy. Almost to a person, HSR critics and opponents all believe that the status [...]
In this four part series, we will discuss perhaps the most sensitive decision that the California High Speed Rail Authority will make: selection and implementation of its Initial Operating Segment. In this installment, we discuss the role Amtrak Cascades-style rolling stock could play. On May 10, 2011 the Legislative Analyst’s Office released an analysis [...]
Fresno Bee editorial page editor Jim Boren raises a very interesting point on Twitter today: Talked to farmer who lost farm because of Freeway 180 extension. No squawks from farm community cause opposition to HSR is political. Boren is likely referring to the SR 180 East freeway extension projects, funded by Fresno County’s Measure C [...]
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