By The Editorial Board, The Sacramento Bee; October 4, 2017
The prospect that new trains could be delivering passengers to midtown Sacramento from the San Joaquin Valley is enough to stir our civic imagination. We’re all for it, and then some.
The San Joaquin Valley to Sacramento tracks once were a main passenger route through the state, dating to the turn of the century. But our collective love affair with cars made trains seem obsolete. They’re not.