Here is a brief non politically correct but factual background: In 2008 due to the infinite wisdom of California voters in the Los Angeles and San Francisco areas who felt the state has lots of money to spend, they approved funding for a high speed rail from San Diego to Sacramento/San Francisco. All counties outside those two areas including San Diego county voted no.
Then the environmentalists, who block all wind generation on the coast because it is not pretty, said the environmentally friendly high speed train must not travel through our backyards along the coast, they must travel inland where the hicks live. So the San Diego to LA route goes up I-15 which is much longer distance and has major hills versus the flat coast. So Rainbow gets a train running through it.
The intial route put a tunnel right through the valley, but they semi took the Rainbow Planning Groups input and moved it closer to the freeway. But they figured out they can't tunnel in the valley area and have moved to train to above ground. And they moved the route not as close as we asked, and homes will be lost and people get a train in their backyard if the current route stays. This meeting next month is part of the public comment period required by law as the route becomes finalized. Here is the link to their website:
Here is the link to the section that impacts Rainbow:
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