Although construction of the second phase of the HSR project is some ways off, particularly the Los Angeles-San Diego route via the Inland Empire, the San Gabriel Valley is already being engaged on the HSR project. Routes are being proposed, and community reaction is being received. One thing that these communities aren’t aware of, but [...]

At yesterday’s California High Speed Rail Authority board meeting in San Francisco, staff – led by Peninsula Rail Project head Bob Doty – presented the Supplemental Alternatives Analysis report for the San Francisco to San José segment of the HSR project. Based on community feedback, particularly the desire to build the project within the existing [...]

The California High Speed Rail Authority is holding its August meeting this morning in San Francisco. The agenda is here. I do not believe this is going to be livestreamed or anything owing to the fact that it’s not at the usual Sacramento location. This meeting is likely to be more eventful than most. Alongside [...]

Just over a week ago, as I sat in bumper-to-bumper traffic on US 101 southbound in San Martin, on a freeway packed full of traffic headed to the Gilroy Garlic Festival, I asked my wife rhetorically “how on earth can anyone in Gilroy look at this traffic and not be beating down the door to [...]