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California State Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (head of the majority Democrats) proposed a jobs package yesterday, and high speed rail is a key element: A day before the first legislative vote on efforts to close California’s $19.9 billion deficit, Senate Democrats on Tuesday mapped out a package of bills they claim will rev [...]
As 2009 winds to a close, it’s worth taking a look at the year past in order to figure out what we have learned – or what we should have learned – about California High Speed Rail. Later in the week I’ll post a look ahead at 2010, and then an assessment of the CHSRA’s [...]
Last month we looked at the emerging HSR plan from a coalition of planning groups in Denver, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, Reno and Las Vegas. Yesterday this group officially launched as the Western High Speed Rail Alliance. From the press release: Included in the alliance are the following planning agencies: The Denver Regional Council of [...]
Just got to my laptop here in a very cold Denver, where I’ll be presenting on HSR to a meeting of the Public Interest Research Group. On the way in from the airport I read that Congress has reached a deal on HSR funding. They’ve found a middle ground – the House had voted $4 [...]
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