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China HSR. Should We Follow Their Lead?

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The Pros and Cons. The Pros and Cons of the burgeoning Chinese HSR system are discussed in this article by Bloomberg News dated December 3,...

Jobs American?

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Who Will Really Get the Jobs? Opportunity costs: Will building HSR create more jobs than it kills? I can't speak to the numbers in this...

HSR in CA Dwindling Down - Plan B

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November 29, 2010. Is this is what the promised SF to LA HSR system is coming down to? The private investors have yet to step forward, the ...

Cities Lining Up Against HSR

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Cities Lining Up Against the the HSR Project as it Stands. City Councils Vote "No Confidence" in the HSR Board. Chowchilla Gilroy ...

A Statewide Grass Roots Movement

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High Speed Boondoggle is a statewide grass roots movement to raise awareness using visual aids, including lawn signs and videos, in an effo...

HSRA Re-Configured Website

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October 6, 2010. The HSRA has redesigned their website . Unfortunately, in the process, they have relegated all of the HSRA links found i...

HSR Authority Board Members

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Updates. January 1, 2011. Governor Schwarzenegger made several appointments to the California High Speed Rail Authority Board on the eve of...

PCC (Peninsula Cities Consortium)

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The Peninsula Cities Consortium (PCC). Six Peninsula cities - Burlingame, Belmont, Palo Alto, Menlo Park and Atherton and Brisbane (new 10/...

Stations

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TransBay Terminal in San Francisco. See a link here .

HSR Pro or Con?

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PRO. HSRA Board Member Rod Diridon on HSR. See this July 9, 2010 Vimeo interview . CALPIRG Executive Summary of June 29, 2010. Read the su...

HSR History

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1996-2004. High Speed Rail...so far, an exercise in Power and Money. A series in Eldorado Magazine by Richard Trainor: "Paradise Los...

Pacheco vs. Altamont Pass Route

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Why was the once favored Altamont Pass Route suddenly changed to the Pacheco Pass route? Justification is provided by the HSRA authority on...

The November 2008 Prop 1a Ballot

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The Ballot. In the wake of June 2008's high water mark for gas prices, November's Proposition 1a passed state wide 52/48%. If you r...

HSR and the Environment

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June 5, 2012.   Sierra Club comes out against Governor Brown's proposal to circumvent CEQA in order to get the shovels in the ground bef...

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Construction. Some images from China. This is only 2-track without the need for shoofly tracks needed to keep an existing rail, such as Ca...

Timeline

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Timeline for the HSR Project. The timeline can be viewed in the Context Sensitive Solutions (CSS) Toolkit on the HSRA site. See this link ...

Sound of HSR

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HSR Sound Levels. Video of the French TGV. Train speeds on the Caltrain corridor will be 125mph for HSR and 110mph for Caltrain. The graph ...

What Could it Look Like

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Story Poles. The City of Burlingame, in an effort to show people what the scale might blook like, erected story poles near the Caltrain sta...

Caltrain, Union Pacific, and HSR

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Caltrain is broke, declaring electrification is the answer for turning a profit. Simply put, electrification will allow trains to run faster...

Ridership

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July 26, 2011. HSRA breaking the law (yet again) by not responding to Freedom of Information Act requests. CAARD has repeatedly - ten times,...

The Business Plan

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The Business Plan. General Library of business plans, appendices, summaries, etc.on HSRA site. 2009 Business Plan December 2009 (142 pages...