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Redwood City councilmember and head of the San Mateo County Economic Development Association (SAMCEDA) Rosanne Foust has an excellent op-ed in Redwood City Patch this week calling support for high speed rail “California’s Sputnik moment,” a reference to President Barack Obama’s pro-HSR State of the Union address: Here in the Bay Area, we’re having our [...]
According to former California High Speed Rail Authority board member Rod Diridon, speaking before the Belmont City Council yesterday afternoon, the San Francisco to San José draft EIR could be further delayed by as much as a year: Staff members are expected to recommend to the high-speed rail board next week that the report be [...]
UPDATE: The complete text of the letter Roelof van Ark sent to Burlingame is below. Original post begins here: Mike Rosenberg reports that CHSRA CEO Roelof van Ark has told Burlingame officials that if they want below-grade tracks, they’ll have to pay for it: “This letter that we got from (California High-Speed Rail Authority CEO [...]
California High Speed Rail Authority CEO Roelof van Ark met with Peninsula city leaders yesterday to discuss the HSR project, and the headline news from the meeting was that tunneling wasn’t going to happen on the Peninsula: The boss of the California high-speed train project had a clear message to cities on the Peninsula on [...]
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