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Originally Posted by Krases
High-speed rail officials rebuffed proposal from French railway
By Dan Weikel and Ralph Vartabedian, Los Angeles Times
July 9, 2012
Read More: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la...921,full.story
I thought this was a very interesting article. Amazing what California could have had without all the politics involved, as SNCF is a successful bullet train operator.
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Yep. The other problem is the insistence on running the thing along the old SP right-of-way through the middle of the San Joaquin Valley. I understand why they did it politically, but it was just damned dumb in terms of HSR. Much, much smarter to have followed the I-5 and connecting freeways route.