It will cost four or five times as much to have High-Speed Rail go underground... that's the official word. Which means you HSR-NIMBYs should start bombarding the High-Speed Rail Authority now... Burlingame Voice folks were at the High-Speed Rail meeting yesterday and have a report...
Locally, we know that red light cameras are causing everyone grief. One city (SSF) needs to return money to the the couple of hundred folks who got tickets by mistake... now, San Carlos is likely to get rid of the cameras because they aren't catching enough people running red lights. In other words, the cameras work as a deterrent, which in this case makes them unaffordable. As Alanis said, "Isn't it ironic?... Don't you think?" Yeah, Watch Dog really does think...
New pretty pictures have been put together to give folks an idea of what a revamped downtown Menlo Park would look like. We actually like the way downtown Menlo Park looks now, but the pastel images are great looking too...
There have been some high-profile union vs. city fights recently (Palo Alto vs Firefighters, Menlo Park Workers vs. Ballot Initiative, etc.) But in Half Moon Bay, a big bargaining unit agreed to furlough days for a year...
Pacifica Riptide continues its critique of Pacifica's new garbage company. Initially, the critique was about how Recology got the garbage contract without a bidding process being conducted... now it is about Recology's "confusing and incomplete" information they are mailing to customers about recycling...
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