California Legislator Fiona Ma was onboard the record-setting TGV
According to a report published by the San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Assemblywoman Fiona Ma (of the California State Assembly) was one of the selected few passengers aboard the record setting TGV earlier today. She was visiting France together with a delegation of California Legislators led by Assembly Speaker Nunez, but was the only one actually aboard the train.
Ma was among a handful of handpicked passengers on the V150 that set a new bullet train speed record by hitting 357.2 mph. The previous record was 320.2 mph set in 1990.
Well, let’s hope she was suitably impressed and will help further the cause of High Speed Rail in California - we definitely need it!
Posted in: Bay Area, California, France, High Speed Rail, Legislation | April 3, 2007 8:38 pm
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Some additional thoughts on the TGV record | TrainBlog, on April 10, 2007 @ 10:32 pm
[…] Also, this record seems to have revived interest in high speed rail in California - it probably created more public and press attention for the ailing California High Speed Rail project than years of rail advocacy. Maybe we should all thank the French for inviting those lawmakers… Hmm, I wonder whether it was a coincidence that this record attempt took place in the same week as the California legislature’s spring break … After all, the CAHSR project potentially represents big business for Alstom. […]
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