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I have indeed noted Debbie Cook's election as one to watch, and I'm glad she has a chance - I was very much impressed by her in Austin, both during the panel, and on a separate occasion when I had the opportunity to talk to her for a bit longer privately. She's an avid reader of the Oil Drum.
A question: would there be any plan to link LAX to the HSR? That would certainly help in eliminating lots of smaller connecting flights in or out, no? In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
LAX is out of the way of the HSR line. The Green Line of LA Metro Rail misses LAX by about a mile - in the early 1990s when the Green Line was being built LAX parking companies lobbied successfully to prevent the line from going to the terminal. Metro has long wanted to rectify that mistake and has plans to connect the Green Line directly to the terminal.
The other end of the Green Line was to terminate in Norwalk, which is slated to get an HSR station. The Green Line wasn't completed to Norwalk but falls about 2 miles short. HSR could provide the impetus to finish the Green Line at both ends.
It's worth noting that Millbrae/SFO is going to be an HSR stop, which is connected by a brief BART ride to the SFO terminal, and will come within a mile and a half of the San José airport terminal. The San Diego terminus might be at the airport there, depending on the final routing decision (the specific routing of the SD branch should be treated as theoretical at this point). And the world will live as one
i was fortunate enough to live and work in california for 6 months, living in s. cruz, and bopping down to L.A. (via esalen and H101!) to massage in beverly hills.
very nice period, amazing coast, wonderful counterculture.
trips to s. jose were a reality check...airport-sized parking lots filled with new tanks.
or over to watsonville, where the immigrants lived, so s. cruz stayed WASP-y. only thing i didn't like about s. cruz, everything else was stellar.
inland, it was redneck madness...modesto, bakersfield...shudder...
did some time in the seventies in marin and mendocino too, very wild woods living.
lovely shot of the bay! 'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty
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