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I’m here at San Jose Airport, about to board a flight to Burbank for a daytrip to LA. As usual, every time I do this I think “this would be so much easier on a high speed train” – especially since my ultimate destination is near downtown LA, meaning Union Station would be much more [...]
Palo Alto mayor Pat Burt is calling for a delay in the HSR planning process, in this case asking for double the amount of time currently planned to review the upcoming Alternatives Analysis for the Peninsula segment:
Mayor Pat Burt said the city council’s high-speed rail subcommittee this week decided to send a letter asking the [...]
Mark Reutter, a rail policy expert and editor of Railroad History, has a memo up at Progressive Policy Institute arguing that Obama’s HSR strategy is wrong – that instead of spreading funds to a number of different projects, the federal government should instead focus on two state projects – in this case, California and Florida.
The [...]
The New York Times reports that the HSR stimulus cash was spread around in a very politically sensible way:
According to an E&E analysis, the passenger rail lines that received stimulus cash go through more than 40 percent of all congressional districts, including those represented by a number of powerful lawmakers that will play a key [...]
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