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Tell Steve Lopez: HSR Is No Boondoggle

Thursday, 02 February 2012 04:00

You can tell a lot about the inherent biases and assumptions of the state’s media by their opinion columnists. Most of them are deeply conservative people. I don’t mean that in an ideological sense, but in an attitudinal sense. They are usually not interested at all in change, and instead look on it skeptically. This [...]
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Amtrak Service To Resume Thursday After Accident

Thursday, 02 February 2012 00:00

Amtrak says it expects to restore full passenger service between Detroit and Chicago, one day after one of its trains slammed into a truck that was stuck on the tracks in southern Michigan.
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Amtrak service to resume Thursday after crash near Jackson

Thursday, 02 February 2012 00:00

Leoni Township— Amtrak says it expects to restore full passenger service between Detroit and Chicago, one day after one of its trains slammed into a truck that was stuck on the tracks in southern Michigan.
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eNewsletter for January 30, 2012

Wednesday, 01 February 2012 20:00

San Joaquin Valley Rail Committee takes stand on Closing the HSR Gap at January 26 Meeting ; Passes Resolution Supporting Closure of the Southern Gap. The top priority for rail passenger service in California is direct service between Bakersfield and Los Angeles. Hopefully other government bodies will join the SJVRC with similar statements. NB January [...]
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Comparing The Benefits Of The First $7 Billion Investment In California High Speed Rail—Bakersfield North vs. Bakersfield South

Wednesday, 01 February 2012 20:00

Commentary by Ralph James, RailPAC member This commentary is a follow-up to this writer’s original commentary entitled “Is California High Speed Rail on Track for Successful Implementation?”, published in spring 2010 illustrating the futility of spending early HSR dollars in the Central Valley as compared to other sections of the ultimate HSR route. In the intervening two [...]
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