tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11021719.post5094120826469572373..comments2024-03-01T02:02:02.520-08:00Comments on VTA Watch: HSRA unprofessionalism for all to seeaccountablevtahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14035365902584938185noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11021719.post-80907245966048462982009-09-03T00:50:09.597-07:002009-09-03T00:50:09.597-07:00And I think the sad conclusion of all of this is t...And I think the sad conclusion of all of this is that even if anything is built at all, it will be a line from San Francisco to San Jose, a line from LA to Anaheim, and maybe something in the Central Valley, leaving out the difficult and actually important connections (Bay Area-Central Valley and LA-Bakersfield) which make the whole system worthwhile.crzwdjkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06394805356595604336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11021719.post-16486862290148012422009-09-02T23:14:13.681-07:002009-09-02T23:14:13.681-07:00It is not just the politicians, but the developmen...It is not just the politicians, but the development interests who fund them.accountablevtahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14035365902584938185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11021719.post-16430147064986152382009-08-28T21:30:59.082-07:002009-08-28T21:30:59.082-07:00And the whole Pacheco vs. Altamont is symptomatic ...And the whole Pacheco vs. Altamont is symptomatic of one of the other problems of the HSR project as a whole: the way it's been mostly an ambition of various Bay Area politicians (Kopp and Diridon in particular). But even getting some SoCal folks more power on the board won't really help, because this project isn't about the Bay Area or about SoCal or the Central Valley, it's about the links <i>between</i> those regions, which have, at best, only a few land speculator types interested in them (hence Pacheco and Palmdale). There's not really anybody looking out for the project as a whole at the scope of the entire state.crzwdjkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06394805356595604336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11021719.post-23872389039579825522009-08-28T19:10:46.737-07:002009-08-28T19:10:46.737-07:00The problem goes back farther than that. The way C...The problem goes back farther than that. The way CHSRA has been pushing Pacheco over Altamont has been disgraceful. A quick look at the map shows more people being served via Altamont. Plus, if you built Altamont, a Sacramento extension would not need to be as long or expensive as it would off the Pacheco route. Plus, who wants to go from SF to Sacramento via Pacheco?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11021719.post-6389060461499397822009-08-27T14:18:16.693-07:002009-08-27T14:18:16.693-07:00HSRA needs to do much more in communicating with t...<i>HSRA needs to do much more in communicating with the public.</i><br /><br />That's a huge part of the problem, and I think a huge cause of the opposition is just because of misunderstandings on the part of the local residents, which the HSRA's arrogance has managed to escalate into full blown angry NIMBYism. I think if the HSRA took a more conciliatory tone and patiently explained the difference between a program-level and project-level EIR, and offered to study alternative alignments along the Peninsula, a lot of the unpleasantness could have been avoided.crzwdjkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06394805356595604336noreply@blogger.com