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Caltrain is in the midst of a stunning yet totally unsurprising (to rail advocates at least) surge in ridership that began nearly ten years ago. Yet the agency might still be forced to cut service because it doesn’t have a dedicated funding source to support operations. Such is the madness of transportation funding in California. [...]
The last remaining lawsuit attempting to stop the California high speed rail project will be heard on May 31 by Judge Michael Kenny in Sacramento Superior Court as the state dropped a request to consolidate all lawsuits regarding the validity of the current project plan under Prop 1A: State officials on Thursday agreed to drop [...]
Governor Jerry Brown issued the May Revise for the state budget yesterday, and one provision has some transit advocates unhappy. The governor’s budget proposed to loan cap-and-trade funds to the general fund, which are promised to be repaid but it’s not entirely clear how that would work: Yesterday, Governor Jerry Brown unveiled his budget for [...]
Today USPIRG released a new report showing that “the driving boom is over” – we’ve hit peak driving and now we’ll be seeing a long-term shift away from driving. In turn that means we need to be shifting transportation spending away from roads and toward transit and passenger rail, including high speed rail. This blog [...]
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