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You would think that a plan to build high speed rail that is $30 billion cheaper than the previous iteration and provides desperately needed post-oil travel between California’s metropolitan areas sooner would be one that HSR critics would embrace. Instead, the usual suspects are lining up to attack Governor Jerry Brown’s revisions to the high [...]
The details of the revised business plan are starting to come out and they contain some big changes – starting with a dramatic lowering of the project cost. From Dan Smith and David Siders at the Sacramento Bee: The Brown administration has lowered the projected cost to build California’s high-speed rail line by $30 billion [...]
It’s becoming increasingly clear that part of the upcoming revision to the 2012 Business Plan will include more money from Prop 1A for urban rail upgrades. Earlier we learned that the California High Speed Rail Authority and the Southern California Association of Governments had agreed on a proposal to fund rail upgrades in Southern California [...]
In 2010 and 2011 there were a lot of tense discussions in the San Gabriel Valley regarding a possible high speed rail alignment, with concerns in cities such as Alhambra and Rosemead about losing homes to a rail route. (See here for a bit of background.) This past week, the Southern California Association of Governments [...]
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