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It’s not every day that a city’s decision to spend $150,000 to study the best route for the high speed rail project makes news. But it did make news tonight that the Gilroy City Council, in a vote seen by many as a key decision whether Gilroy will continue to support involvement in the HSR [...]
Tomorrow night, a meeting will be held at 7PM at the Menlo Park library by “Friends of Caltrain” – a group organized to seek a dedicated funding source to ensure Caltrain’s survival. This is a movement I support, and that everyone else who backs passenger rail ought to support. Caltrain is a very important part [...]
Growing up in Southern California, where the car was king (because alternatives had been deconstructed and systematically defunded), I would often look at Northern California – and the Bay Area in particular – as a model of how California could be done better. More sustainably, more fairly, more progressively. In 1995, on my first trip [...]
When Prop 1A passed in November 2008, it included $950 million for other passenger rail systems that would connect to the HSR line. Much of that money will be awarded in May, and Bay Area agencies are in the hunt: Five Bay Area train operators say they are entitled to as much as $400 million [...]
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