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Although I wasn’t able to attend, by the accounts I’ve heard and read, yesterday’s Friends of Caltrain summit in San Carlos was a very worthwhile event that has at least sharpened the discussion about the options available for saving this vital service. Before discussing some of the possible funding sources, it’s worth taking a moment [...]
Growing up in Southern California, where the car was king (because alternatives had been deconstructed and systematically defunded), I would often look at Northern California – and the Bay Area in particular – as a model of how California could be done better. More sustainably, more fairly, more progressively. In 1995, on my first trip [...]
45 years ago, there was a major controversy over planning a passenger rail line in a Bay Area college town. The prospect of an aerial structure freaked out many residents, who insisted the tracks be buried. Ultimately, they took it on themselves to pay for the extra cost of a tunnel, floating a bond and [...]
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 [...]
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