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Big news in Los Angeles today: the ambitious 30/10 plan, which would leverage Measure R sales tax revenues to repay federal loans to build 30 years’ worth of mass transit projects in the next 10 years, has received its first federal loan: Public transportation in Los Angeles today received a boost with the news of [...]
Jennifer Levitz of the Wall Street Journal has a very good article out this week titled High-Speed Rail Stalls: Freight Carriers Balk at Sharing Tracks With the Faster Passenger Service. It tells a story familiar to readers of this blog: how freight rail companies like Union Pacific are fighting against high speed rail plans, even [...]
Quite a lot to talk about from the last day or so, focused on the San Francisco to San José segment: • Caltrain’s “phased” plan: The biggest news is Caltrain’s call for an “initial operating segment” to be constructed on the SJ-SF rail corridor: CalTrain-9-13-2010 What this means isn’t exactly clear, and the devil is [...]
In San Francisco today, a group of top local and national political leaders gathered to break ground on the new Transbay Terminal – the first high speed rail station in California, and potentially the country (depending on whether you define the Acela as “high speed rail” or not). Photo from Congressman George Miller (From L [...]
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