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TRANSACTIONS NEWSLETTER ONLINE
February/March 2000

Transactions 1999 Transactions Retrospective: 1999

Not surprisingly, Transactions spent much of 1999 looking ahead at what the new millennium might bring.

We presented a state panel's plans for a high-speed rail line that would whisk travelers from Los Angeles to the Bay Area in under three hours, addressing the knotty question of where the tracks would enter the Bay Area. To give readers a sense of the thrill of high-speed transport, a staffer filed a dispatch from her European travels aboard the Thalys (Amsterdam to Paris) and Eurostar (Paris to London via the Chunnel) trains.

As reported in a subsequent issue, "high-speed" is also the operative term in a proposal to boost ferry service over the next 10 years to the point where 70 high-speed vessels would serve some two dozen docks around the Bay.

Sometimes, big advances come in small packages, as in the case of the wafer-thin chip that's at the heart of MTC's TransLink® universal transit ticket, the subject of a cover story in the fall.

We brought the decade to a close with a two-part series on MTC's Transportation Blueprint for the 21st Century, an ambitious work in progress.

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