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Tim Sheehan

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Tim Sheehan is a business reporter for The Fresno Bee and covers high-speed rail issues. He can be reached at tsheehan@fresnobee.com or 559-441-6319.

Recent Spotlight Articles

January 22, 2012
Minimal impact on cities, farms helped Spain avoid high-speed rail opposition
Despite crossing both cityscapes and farmland, Spain’s high-speed rail program stirred no major opposition, going to great lengths to minimize its impact on surrounding land.
January 15, 2012
Video: High-speed rail lessons from Spain
Reporter Tim Sheehan traveled to Spain to talk to passengers and experts about the high-speed rail system that opened there in 1992. What can California learn from Spain?
January 15, 2012
Spain’s high-speed rail system offers lessons for California
There are lessons – from successes and mistakes – that California can learn from Spain’s 20-year history with high-speed trains. Among them is how hard it is to be self-sufficient.
January 15, 2012
Politics, not funding, drove growth of Spain’s high-speed rail
Experts say expansion of Spain’s high-speed rail system has been driven not by profits, but by politics. But as Europe faces a deep financial crisis, the climate is changing.
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Recent News Posts

April 23, 2012
Final bullet train report out for Merced-Fresno
April 13, 2012
Latest high-speed rail plan goes to lawmakers
April 11, 2012
Bullet train officials to OK new business plan
April 4, 2012
Kings County remains skeptical of bullet train
January 13, 2012
High-speed rail officials reject Central Valley jobs proposal
December 2, 2011
Rail planners suggest hybrid route for Valley
October 6, 2011
High-speed rail plan in Hanford to be revised
September 16, 2011
Rail authority ordered to involve minority-owned businesses
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