Recent Streetsblog LA posts about High Speed Rail

High-Speed Rail Breaks Ground in Fresno

By Melanie Curry | Jan 6, 2015 | 17 Comments

California signaled its commitment to high-speed rail with a groundbreaking today in Fresno. The ceremony, featuring a speech by Governor Jerry Brown, marks the official beginning of construction on the long-awaited train. It also puts California on track to be the first state in the nation to build high-speed rail. That depends on how you […]

California Legislation Watch: Weekly Update

By Melanie Curry | Sep 12, 2014 | 2 Comments

Here is Streetsblog’s weekly highlight of California legislation and activities related to sustainable transportation. With the legislature in recess, Sacramento waits for Governor Brown to decide on hundreds of bills passed by lawmakers before they left town. His deadline is the end of this month, and he has begun signing small groups of bills. A […]

Give Your Input at Upcoming CA High Speed Rail Scoping Meetings

By Joe Linton | Aug 7, 2014 | 13 Comments

The California High Speed Rail Authority (CAHSRA) is hosting a series of meetings to solicit input on two Los Angeles County sections of the statewide project. CAHSRA is gaining momentum after securing state cap-and-trade funding, and prevailing over a lawsuit that restricted the agency’s financing abilities. With construction already underway in the Central Valley, Southern […]

California High Speed Rail to Present L.A.-area Options

By Melanie Curry | Jul 30, 2014 | 1 Comment

The California High Speed Rail Authority will hold a series of public meetings starting next week to discuss proposed alignments for two segments of the project: from Palmdale to Burbank and from Burbank to downtown Los Angeles. Three routes have been proposed for the Palmdale to Burbank section: two of them vary slightly but both would follow […]

The Los Angeles Times and its Disgraceful Reporting on High Speed Rail

By Roger Rudick | Jun 18, 2014 | 82 Comments

On the morning of March 24, I was in the café car on the Eurostar high-speed train, on my way from Paris to London. I glanced out the window as we zoomed at nearly 200 mph past a stopped train, a concrete platform and some parked cars. I asked the barista if that was Haute-Picardie […]

Steinberg: CA Cap-and-Trade Must Fund Transit-Oriented Affordable Housing

By Melanie Curry | May 19, 2014 | 54 Comments

Negotiations over the California state budget are producing dueling proposals on how best to spend revenue from the state’s cap-and-trade program. While Governor Jerry Brown continues to call for a third of the cap-and-trade funds to go to CA high-speed rail, Senate President ProTem Darrell Steinberg last week expanded upon his alternative proposal to spend a […]

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