Recent Streetsblog SF posts about High-Speed Rail

Guest Editorial: An Open Letter to Mayor Ed Lee About Transbay

By Andy Bosselman | Mar 3, 2016 | 63 Comments

Dear Mr. Mayor: Thanks for the world’s most expensive bus stop. Last week your administration announced a plan to connect Caltrain and California High Speed Rail to the Transbay Transit Center and remove I-280. It’s exactly the sort of bold thinking that people want from their mayor. It would “open up land for housing, connect […]

Don’t Like California’s High Speed Rail Plan? Then Stop Complaining and Fix It

By Roger Rudick | Feb 24, 2016 | 97 Comments

The California High-Speed Rail Authority says it will shift gears by building the first operational section of the bullet train from the Central Valley to San Jose rather than going to Burbank first, as initially planned. Trains would share the Caltrain tracks from San Jose to downtown San Francisco. According to the Authority’s official statement, […]