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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 – [...]

Feb 5th, 2011 | Filed under Uncategorized

For those followers of this blog who are not yet on Californians For High Speed Rail’s (CA4HSR) e-mail list, below are links to the two latest issues of our e-newsletter – The High-Speed Rail Advocate. If you are interested in receiving the html version of this e-newsletter via e-mail along with other alerts and announcements from CA4HSR, please send [...]

Feb 1st, 2011 | Filed under Uncategorized

The following post is a guest post from UC Riverside PhD student and blogger Justin Nelson. It appears that planning for HSR stations along the Los Angeles to San Diego Section is moving away from the Authority’s commitment to downtown stations in favor of greenfield sites (described below), or in the case of San Diego, at the [...]

Aug 25th, 2010 | Filed under Uncategorized

The idea of stopping high-speed rail (HSR) in San Jose and having HSR passengers transfer to Caltrain continues to be proposed by some along the Peninsula. Unfortunately, these people are not thinking through the implications for the Peninsula of this scenario. Aside from making it much more inconvenient for thousands of people HSR riders to [...]

Aug 21st, 2010 | Filed under Uncategorized