Recent Streetsblog SF posts about High Speed Rail

High Speed Rail Authority Says Ruling Won’t Affect Timeline or Funding

By Michael Rhodes | Aug 27, 2009 | 9 Comments

High Speed Rail as envisioned running along the San Francisco Bay. Image: California High Speed Rail Authority. A Sacramento judge ruled this week that the California High Speed Rail Authority failed to provide an adequate description of the San Francisco to Los Angeles high speed train project in its Environmental Impact Report. Critics of the […]

Ed Glaeser’s Rail Fail

By Elana Schor | Aug 12, 2009 | No Comments

The story so far: Ed Glaeser recently began an effort to assess the costs and benefits of constructing high-speed rail lines at the New York Times’ Economix blog. Last week, he posted his first substantive take on the issue, an attempt to estimate direct costs and benefits from a hypothetical line between Houston and Dallas. […]

Senate Panel Backs $1.2B for High-Speed Rail, $1.2B Extra for Highways

By Elana Schor | Jul 29, 2009 | No Comments

The Senate panel in charge of transportation spending has just released its version of the budget bill that passed the House last week, giving less to high-speed rail and more to highways than the lower chamber of Congress. The Senate’s transportation bill, shepherded by senior appropriator Patty Murray (D-WA), provides $1.2 billion for the Obama […]

The High-Speed Rail Numbers Game: Is $13 Billion and 110 MPH Enough?

By Elana Schor | Jun 24, 2009 | 7 Comments

High-speed rail is one of the Obama administration’s most prized policy goals, with $13 billion getting earmarked in the coming year alone to help break ground on up to 11 proposed regional corridors. But what will the U.S. get for its money? A lively Senate hearing yesterday attempted to answer that question. Will all 11 […]

U.S. Dot Clocks High-Speed Rail at 110 MPH, Give or Take

By Elana Schor | Jun 17, 2009 | 4 Comments

The federal DOT has just released its guidance for states seeking a share of its $8 billion in high-speed rail funding — and tucked in the rules are standards that could prove crucial to the project’s success. Ray LaHood geeks out on French high-speed rail. Photo via The Overhead Wire The definition of high-speed rail […]

“Shovel Ready” High Speed Rail? CA Is Ahead of the Game

By Damien Newton | Jun 4, 2009 | 5 Comments

Photo: Sacramento Bee Yesterday, Vice President Joe Biden, met with governors from eight different states that are competing for High Speed Rail funding. Streetsblog’s D.C. Correspondent wrote a story about the national implications of the meeting available at our New York site. While neither Schwarzenegger nor another representative from California was present, there was good […]

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