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The California High Speed Rail Authority is holding a second board meeting this month to approve using the recently won $616 million in federal HSR funding to build tracks toward Bakersfield. The staff report for this meeting lays out the various scenarios for using the $1.232 billion now available (including the Prop 1A matching funds) [...]
Talk amongst yourselves. As some have noted, with the opening of the Madrid-Valencia AVE line last week, Spain now leads Europe in HSR trackage. Their first route, opened in 1992, connected Madrid to Cordoba and Sevilla. It took another 10 years for the system to get expanded, but that starter line was enormously successful, beyond [...]
Jim Wunderman of the Bay Area Council and Carl Guardino of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group have a great op-ed today defending the strategy behind starting the HSR project in the Central Valley. They both express disappointment that the project isn’t starting in the Bay Area: We would have liked to see the first phase [...]
Wisconsin and Ohio weren’t the only two states who elected right-wing extremists as governor on November 2. Florida elected Rick Scott, whose stance on high speed rail is hard to pin down. In recent days, however, Scott has been more vocal in his criticisms of the project, leading the Orlando Sentinel to attack Scott in [...]
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