Peninsula high-speed rail track plans unveiled

San Jose Mercury News ^ | Friday, August 6, 2010 | Mike Rosenberg - San Mateo County Times

[Willie Green]

It became clearer Thursday that the state's high-speed train will run above ground in the Peninsula and South Bay -- including on so-called "Berlin Walls" that some cities fear will divide their communities and demolish homes and businesses.

The California High-Speed Rail Authority, at a packed board meeting in San Francisco, unveiled its most detailed engineering plan yet for the section of the $43 billion rail line that will run along the Caltrain tracks on the way to Southern California.

Some of the cities along the line will receive aboveground tracks, either next to the existing Caltrain tracks or on structures similar to freeway overpasses. These cities include South San Francisco, San Bruno, Belmont, San Carlos, Redwood City and San Jose.

Other cities on the Peninsula will receive the same treatment unless the state is willing to go about $1 billion more than its budget to build below-ground rails that would reduce the property acquisition and blight some communities fear the tracks will create. Those cities include Burlingame and San Mateo and cities from Atherton to Santa Clara.

The final two cities -- Millbrae and San Francisco -- will receive a combination of above- and below-ground tracks.

There are essentially three types of tracks the train will run on through the Bay Area.

[Willie Green]

For posting articles from the mainstream media that offend your fringe environmental theories???

You really are a pathetic joke.

[Willie Green]

New ideas are never mainstream

There's nothing new about your ideas,
they're merely a smoke and mirrors fantasy recreation of the insurance industry and the 1894 creation of Underwriters Laboratories.

U/L already has an environmental subsidiary, so your brainfart isn't eligible for the Nobel Prize.