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Bullet train pluses  I don’t understand the reasoning behind
your strong opposition against the construction of a north-south
fast train service in California (“What fuels Brown bullet-train
fixation,” Editorial, June 12, and similar comments in earlier
editions on the subject).  Letters and commentary policy     •
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Outreach Editor     U-T San Diego,     P.O. Box 120191     San
Diego, CA 92112-0191.  A north-south fast train service will
help not just California but the entire country in numerous
ways:    1. It will absorb a large amount of freeways traffic
thus eliminating the need for adding more and more traffic lanes
onto the existing freeways that create an unintended concrete
jungle.    2. It will create, direct and indirect, thousands of
new jobs not just in California but in the entire country.    3.
By using clean energy (electric power), the train will go a long
way in reduc