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Californians For High Speed Rail (CA4HSR) issued a press release and joint letter today with the National Association of Railroad Passengers (NARP) and the Midwest High Speed Rail Association in support of Governor Brown’s efforts to push the California project forward this year in the Central Valley, while also urging him to work to accelerate HSR-related projects [...]
The following article was published in the December issue of Californians For High Speed Rail’s e-newsletter The High-Speed Rail Advocate. While many of the arguments in the article have been expressed previously, given the continuation of the “train to nowhere” rhetoric, it seems timely to summarize many of the benefits of a “valley first” approach [...]
I have been advocating large rail projects for years and have always been perplexed by how “technicals”, the term recently ascribed to transit advocates that focus on the details of engineering and cost, often oppose rail projects (especially in the Bay Area). With many technically-leaning rail advocates already not supporting the high-speed rail project (i.e. [...]
Occasionally, there are comments on this blog that question the effectiveness of the work of Californians For High Speed Rail (CA4HSR), which advocates for high-speed rail (HSR) at the statewide level. As someone who has taken a leadership role within CA4HSR, I actually appreciate these challenges because I often ask myself the same question – [...]
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