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Today a national coalition of high speed rail advocates began organizing a broad and multifaceted effort to mobilize public support behind the California high speed rail project. This comes at a crucial time in the project’s development, as a few Democratic State Senators are considering turning Tea Party on us and joining Republicans like Scott [...]
Note: Scroll down to see two important updates to this post. There’s an interesting agenda item to be discussed at Friday’s Peninsula Cities Consortium meeting – scroll down to Item #7: PCC Agenda 041610 Final I don’t know who requested this item be placed on the agenda, though that would be interesting to know. It [...]
As California’s budget crisis continues, the usual arguments about the $10 billion high speed rail bond are getting dredged up again. The Sacramento Bee’s Dan Walters includes HSR as one of the reasons he says state politicians are digging their fiscal hole deeper: The state has tens of billions of dollars in unsold bonds, and [...]
A reminder that this Thursday evening, the California State Senate Transportation Committee will hold a hearing on high speed rail in Palo Alto: 7PM Thursday, January 21 Palo Alto City Council chambers 250 Hamilton Ave, Palo Alto, CA The driving force behind this hearing is committee member Senator Joe Simitian, whose district includes Palo Alto. [...]
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