SILICON VALLEY -- The California High Speed Rail Authority is thinking about potentially abandoning the San Francisco-to-San Jose section of its proposed high speed rail line -- saying running 200-mile-per-hour bullet trains through the Peninsula might be politically impossible.
The authority is instead floating a new idea, which would have the train line begin in San Jose, instead of San Francisco.
Are you kidding? Starting the rail in San Jose? A public works project that would improve lives for millions being stalled on nitpicky concerns by inconsequential bedroom communities? NIMBYism at its worst. I'm looking at you, Menlo Park, Atherton, and Palo Alto.
If we don't get this done, everybody in the SF Bay loses. And the blame will lie with you, Peninsula communities. (Especially when you look at particularly anti-HSR communities like Menlo Park and Atherton.) Get it together, people.