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In what is a significant development in the debate over how to build high speed rail on the Peninsula, the Bay Area Council has written to the Metropolitan Transportation Commission calling on the MTC to take the lead in developing a “hybrid” plan to both electrify Caltrain and bring high speed rail to the Transbay [...]
Note: see updates below for more info about who does – and doesn’t – support terminating at Transbay. It’s been a busy few days, but it’s time to go over the events of last Thursday, where a California High Speed Rail Authority board meeting and a State Senate hearing on the project both created a [...]
(Note: See second update below for an important clarification from Congresswoman Eshoo’s office – she does not support forced transfers.) While I’ve sometimes disagreed with State Senator Joe Simitian on high speed rail, I’ve always respected him. He does support the project and does seem interested in finding workable solutions, even if he is too [...]
It’s the bad idea that just won’t die. Some Peninsula NIMBYs have had it in their head for a long time that if they could just terminate the HSR system in San José instead of San Francisco then they might somehow be delivered from the quiet, fast, green trains that supposedly would destroy their neighborhoods [...]
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