$150M for 3000 parking spaces? How can it possibly cost that much?

you would be surprised how expensive "free parking" is.

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Any decision against HSR is a right one. Hooray PA. Hooray MV.

But the article (at least the online version) sure needs some editing. Here's one example: "The majority of the Mountain View has expressed its opposition to putting such a station in its downtown."

All you NIMBY's need to get a life! Do you have any idea how many jobs would be created? Or how much revenue the city would get every year? Not to mention the connection with the future development of Moffett Field.

HSR is coming to our neighborhoods, MV is the most logical spot for a station with it's highways, Caltrain and light rail connection.

MV also has the lots than can be used for parking structures near the station.

Those who vote no on a station will be whining when the line goes into operation and their town is bypassed. Then again, this is nothing new for Palo Alto, which will stop at nothing to prevent the free flow of traffic. After all, for nearly 30 years, the only major thoroughfare from Hwy 280 to downtown PA ended in a shopping center parking lot. When they finished extending it to El Camino (we're talking about Sand Hill Road of course) they couldn't help themselves and prevented it from connecting to downtown by keeping people from driving across El Camino onto Alma! In their zeal to keep the riffraff out of their elitist heaven, they also have managed to turn it into a penitentiary.

I can't wait to NOT ride HSR

Solution: Review the 2008 voter proposition for high speed rail. Whichever town had the highest % support for the project gets to have the station in their town. That is fairness.

Something tells me it will be Palo Alto, because it is full of people who love the idea of other people riding public transportation, but hate the idea of actually riding it themselves.

Are residents of Palo Alto and Mountain View this selfish? Mass transit is desperately needed throughout the Bay Area, but you think it doesn't need to come to Palo Alto? Your own residents could use the station, and cut down on your own driving, but of course you all can more than afford the cost of gasoline, no matter how high it goes. Shame on you!

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