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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Gilbert B Norman: [QB] The Journal's "attack" continues: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304066504576347353979346800.html Brief passage: [i][list] [*]....The federal Department of Transportation has offered $3 billion of stimulus funds with the catch that the state has to begin construction by 2012 and build the first segment in the Central Valley. A stand-alone segment running through a sparsely populated area couldn't operate without a huge taxpayer subsidy, but a voter-approved ballot measure explicitly prohibits any such subsidies.[/i] [/list] The one point with which I think is wise and with which I wholly concur is building first the "nowhere to nowhere' segment. Mr. Harris will surely concur that a test bed is needed to work out the engineering "bugs' so that if and when the system is to be constructed through the densely populated (that can be read NIMBY) areas such as Atherton and Menlo Park (somehow, I just cannot see a rail system suspended over El Camino through those two "uppity up' communities, with which I have some degree of familiarity), the development 'bugs' will be behind and that the system will be "up and running' shortly after construction through these areas is complete. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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