HSR up the Caltrain tracks- No on 1A

There is more (bad) auto intensive planning, only more clearly apparent, in the HSR case, since its supposed to an alternative.

Sacramento and San Diego are supposed to added on after HSR from LA to SF is profitable. There isn't a public agency with a profitable revenue stream- so go figure.

Unless the agency can control the landuse decisions around the station, a 1/4 mile for Caltrain and five miles for HSR, these agencies will lose money and the books will have to be gerrymandered to achieve profitability. The result will be significant time delay as the legislature goes through the process of sanctioning the gerrymandering and developers grease the process. For developers greasing the process see the conclusion of this long article on the housing bust in Merced.

Instead of cementing the needed landuse changes for the transit agency, we leave the transit environment in the favor of the automobile, and end up doing what the North County Times reported in early September, with road expansion precluding present alignment- meaning transit is what you get after you've toasted the planet to the mostest by driving. The rules are fast and loose if we are spending other people's money (fed gas tax, etc.) that we decide to fund and build a system ourselves. A bridge to nowhere (actually an airstrip for private- planes- the basis of most transport planning) is possible with OPM.

With driving and developer greased sprawl we need airport expansion in of all places San Jose! The HSR tracks were realigned from the logical population intensive Altamont Pass to come through Northern California's largest city- for what purpose?

Bicyclists note the airport expansion destroyed the only bike connector, Airport Boulevard, between District 5 (used to Ken Yeager) and District 3 (Chuck Reed, now mayor) that I had commuted on for 20 years from south San Jose to work across the airport from Guadalupe Creek (its now a narrow fast four lane high highway slip lane going to six lanes across Terminal C,) and will preclude an alternate bike-ped boulevard on Airport Parkway that was a settlement with SJDOT, from the Downtown Access Committee, that I was on, because SJ Airport now needs two ten story garages and they will be located on Airport Parkway.