Recent Streetsblog SF posts about High Speed Rail

California High Speed Rail Authority Gives Itself an Online Facelift

By Matthew Roth | Oct 6, 2010 | 2 Comments

As California’s high speed rail project continues to gain attention, both positive and negative, the makeup of visitors to the official website has been shifting, with an increasing number of general public who know very little about the project, according to the California High Speed Rail Authority (CAHSRA). In response to this trend and based […]

High-Speed Rail: Do We Have the Will?

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 29, 2010 | No Comments

Tomorrow morning, I’m getting on a train from Washington, DC to New York. It’s going to take me almost three-and-a-half hours to get there. Sure, I could pay more for an Acela and get there in less than three hours. But why can’t it take 90 minutes? Yesterday, Amtrak unveiled a plan [PDF] to build […]

Excitement at Transbay Event, But Federal Transportation Bill Uncertain

By Matthew Roth | Aug 12, 2010 | 9 Comments

Senator Barbara Boxer, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, US DOT Secretary Ray Lahood, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and Transbay Joint Powers Authority Board Chairman and SFMTA CEO Nat Ford at the Transbay Transit Center groundbreaking. Photos: Matthew Roth. Though most of the California political class celebrated the groundbreaking of the new Transbay Transit Center with U.S. […]

High Speed Rail Authority Addresses Alignment Concerns in SF

By Matthew Roth | Jun 29, 2010 | 86 Comments

Possible high speed rail alignment options for San Francisco. Image: HSRA. Peninsula communities have made all the news with their public outcry against the alignment of the California High Speed Rail train, but today some San Franciscans got into the mix. Now that details have emerged about a possible alignment choice through the eastern portion […]

CA Audit Criticizes High Speed Rail Authority of Mismanagement

By Matthew Roth | Apr 30, 2010 | 15 Comments

Image: CAHSRA The California State Auditor released an unflattering report yesterday that accuses the California High Speed Rail Authority (CAHSRA) of mismanagement of the nation’s largest high speed rail project, a move that put the CAHSRA and other supporters on the defensive yet again. Bay Area news outlets have long given a large soap box […]

High Speed Rail Project Has Mojo, But Expect a Bumpy Trip

By Dana Gabbard | Apr 27, 2010 | No Comments

Image: Metro.net In perhaps the strongest sign yet of just how politically potent the statewide high speed rail project has become, a bid by a Republican Assemblywoman to squelch the project has fallen flat (Assembly Bill 2121) and as a face-saving move the bill has been amended to merely mandate the California High Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) submit funding […]

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