- Palo Alto homeowners mistakenly believed for years that the new HSR would be buried so that the noise wouldn't affect their property values. It's a kind of ma

- Palo Alto homeowners mistakenly believed for years that the new HSR would be buried so that the noise wouldn't affect their property values. It's a kind of mass delusion thing, since you're looking at $2 billion/mile or so - Mountain View, an adjacent city, just went througn the same calculus wrt tunneling and found it just as breathtakingly unaffordable - Atherton was mentioned in the article or comments, which is hilarious. They have a city lawyer who's mandate is to not change a single thing. - When I say "city", I mean approx. population 40,000. So they don't have billions to throw around, although the York family did help Santa Clara City (pop. 10,000) spend $1.2 billion for their football stadium. :)