Recent Streetsblog SF posts about CAHSRA

Battle Lines Drawn in High-Speed Rail Vote

By Damien Newton | Jun 27, 2012 | No Comments

Later this week, the plan to build a High Speed Rail line connecting Los Angeles and San Francisco faces a crucial vote in the California legislature. Governor Jerry Brown asked lawmakers to release $2.7 billion of the $6 billion in bonds passed by California voters in 2008 for High Speed Rail. Combined with $3.3 billion […]

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Transbay Transit Center to Fill Downtown With People, Not Cars

By Aaron Bialick | Jun 1, 2012 | 17 Comments

The new Transbay Transit Center is expected to transform San Francisco’s downtown core by focusing new development around a massive regional transit hub in eastern SoMa. Scheduled to open in 2017, it will link 11 transit systems and eventually CA High-Speed Rail. Some have called it the “Grand Central of the West.” The SF Planning Commission last week approved […]

Debunking NIMBY Math on California HSR

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 25, 2012 | No Comments

“California High Speed Rail will forever need an operating subsidy.” That is the latest claim from an anti-HSR group called the Community Coalition on High Speed Rail. The group recently assailed CAHSR’s estimates that the system will cost 10 cents per passenger mile to operate, saying the figure is far too low and questioning the […]

Mapping a Fully Transit-Connected Bay Area

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 27, 2012 | 12 Comments

Imagine the freedom of being able to hop on a nearby train or bus to reach virtually any place in the Bay Area (and beyond) on an integrated network of reliable transit. That’s the vision cartographer Brian Stokle sought to lay out in a map featured in the latest issue of SPUR‘s monthly magazine, The Urbanist. In a recent […]

Will SF Tear Down That Freeway? 280 Removal Study for HSR Moves Forward

By Bryan Goebel | May 19, 2011 | 13 Comments

The San Francisco Examiner, in typical tabloid fashion, picked up on a story this morning that we first reported nearly a year ago. The city is seriously studying demolishing the northernmost segment of Interstate 280 to accommodate four tracks for high-speed rail, and prevent the depressing of several city streets, including 16th Street, which Mission Bay […]

Bay Area Won’t Likely Get First High Speed Rail Segment

By Matthew Roth | Nov 5, 2010 | 15 Comments

The California High-Speed Rail Authority (CAHSRA) Board of Directors won’t make a decision on where to start building California’s first high-speed rail segment until December, but nearly everyone can see the writing on the wall. Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) Adminstrator Joe Szabo wrote [pdf] CAHSRA CEO Roelof van Ark on Wednesday to inform him that […]