Been a while, but...

...it's eight months till the vote on California's high speed rail bond. The CHSRA seems to have a number of entities upset with them right now, including San Diego, because they have the line from LA-San Diego in the second phase of the plan, the Central Valley, because of the choice of the Pacheco routing, and Northern California environmental and transportation groups, again because of the Pacheco choice.

I fall into the latter group. I can see how they can afford to trade-off us against the entities lobbying for Pacheco, but the rage they've inspired in the Central Valley folks is bad. The San Diego problem is totally different, as there has to be some phasing of the project. They can also point to the confusion in Southern California over the two or three independent Maglev proposals. Thank god we don't have to deal with those snake oil salesmen up here.

The Valley is key to the project. High speed rail is EXACTLY what the Valley needs to connect it to the rest of the state. Too bad the CHSRA has made enemies of them.