California High Speed Rail News (cont'd) Options

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From the central California Pinnacle News 10/21:

Coe Park rail line scrapped
High Speed Rail authorities place Altamont back on table, consider Pacheco Hybrid route

By KATE WOODS
Pinnacle Staff Writer
    Environmentalists won a double victory last month when the state's High Speed Rail Authority voted unanimously to take all proposed routes through Henry Coe State Park off the table and reconsider a rail line through the Altamont Pass near the 580/680 corridor.

Full article here.

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Editorial from the Pinnacle 10/21 (see also the item above):

Advocates for Coe Park win one for the environment

EDITORIAL
The opinion of
THE PINNACLE

    If ever an entity had a worthy advocate, it's Coe Park, the 90,000 acres of sprawling, oak-studded wilderness east of Gilroy. The wilderness through which state officials, in their infinite illogical wisdom, had seriously considered running the proposed bullet train.

Full article here.