I’m back from Hawaii and just in time for this month’s California High Speed Rail Authority Board Meeting. Here’s the agenda and the live feed. Included is the reapproval of the Bay Area to Central Valley EIR, to reflect the changes ordered by the judge in the Atherton v. CHSRA case, and discussion of Alignment [...]

In a Sacramento courtroom today, Judge Michael Kenny indicated he intends to deny the request from the town of Atherton to reopen the Atherton v. CHSRA case the city mostly lost last year. According to a release sent out by the California High Speed Rail Authority:
In a tentative ruling issued today, Sacramento Superior Court judge [...]

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
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Californians For High Speed Rail (CA4HSR) is encouraged by recent progress made along the Peninsula regarding the high-speed rail (HSR) project.
Progress in Relation to Caltrain
First, it appears that our concerns regarding the compatibility of the Caltrain electrification project with high speed rail, reflected in our recent letter to Caltrain staff, seems to be coming to [...]