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The California High Speed Rail Authority board met today and took action on two rather significant items. First, the board voted to approve the Memorandum of Understanding with Caltrain that allows the “blended plan” to move forward. Approval had been delayed earlier this month when Lynn Schenk voiced her concern that the “blended plan” wasn’t [...]
Usually California High Speed Rail Authority board meetings are interesting for the information learned about the project’s development. Rarely can I remember any genuine disagreement among board members over something substantive. But there was disagreement today and it was enough to cause a delay in approval of the agreement with Caltrain to share its tracks. [...]
Another day, another twist in the long-running saga of Peninsula NIMBYs trying to throttle passenger rail forever: California’s high-speed rail project may have left the station last year, when the state Legislature approved funding for the first segment by a single vote, but Palo Alto officials still have plenty of concerns about the locally unpopular [...]
With last year’s adoption of the two-track “blended system” for combining Caltrain and high speed rail operations in the near term, two older agreements between Caltrain and the California High Speed Rail Authority were rendered obsolete. So Caltrain and the CHSRA are working on a new agreement that codifies the “blended system” plan: The current [...]
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