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Caltrain plans for 4-track segments complicate Palo Alto's effort to redesign rail crossings

Original post made on Nov 28, 2023

California's high-speed rail system may be more than a decade away from completion, but the beleaguered project is casting a growing shadow over Palo Alto's plans to separate its streets from its rail tracks.

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Posted by ivg
a resident of Another Mountain View Neighborhood
on Nov 28, 2023 at 3:06 pm

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Stop it with the trench warfare, already. $1 billion is four entire years of Palo Alto's General Fund expenditures. Can you imagine what else you could do with it? Just paying for each household within half a mile of the tracks to install double-pane windows would cost a fraction of that. (Not that it's necessary, anyway, but it would have other benefits than calming people's overblown fears about train noise.)


Posted by SRB
a resident of St. Francis Acres
on Nov 28, 2023 at 5:08 pm

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The need for these 4 tracks sections is not new. You'd think it'd be a key parameter for our cities to know ..... before planning grade separation projects. Why hasn't Caltrain settled on their locations years ago?


Posted by Steven Nelson
a resident of Cuesta Park
on Dec 1, 2023 at 8:35 am

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ah CalTrain / High Speed Rail Authority ... relative and inordinately highly incompetent transportation agencies?


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