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Mountain View provides an example of how planning projects near the HSR tracks can be done effectively:
The City Council on Tuesday approved a three-story, 50,000-square-foot office building to be built next to the downtown train station.
The building, slated for 150 W. Evelyn Ave. alongside the tracks just west of the station, is intended to compliment [...]
When Prop 1A passed in November 2008, it included $950 million for other passenger rail systems that would connect to the HSR line. Much of that money will be awarded in May, and Bay Area agencies are in the hunt:
Five Bay Area train operators say they are entitled to as much as $400 million of [...]
As high speed rail planning proceeds along the proposed SF-LA-Anaheim route, more details become known, and more potential conflicts and obstacles appear. That’s an inevitable aspect of planning a project this significant and this big. It’s also an unfortunate side effect of the CHSRA having been a sparsely-funded agency for so many years, making it [...]
In a New York Times op-ed today, Christian Wolmar argues for focusing national HSR efforts on the Northeast Corridor, upgrading the Acela as a demonstration of HSR’s value:
Yet the $8 billion set aside for high-speed rail in his 2009 stimulus package, split among 31 states, includes only two genuine high-speed rail projects — in Florida [...]
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