In the comments to yesterday’s post there was some discussion of the debate unfolding in Burbank over the placement of the proposed HSR station there. Let’s take a closer look. Burbank is slated to get an HSR station and it will be built near downtown Burbank, which is located immediately to the east of Interstate [...]

The CHSRA board meeting in San Diego yesterday offered an opportunity to take another look at the debate over how to bring the HSR trains from the I-15 corridor to downtown San Diego. With residents near Rose Canyon complaining about using the LOSSAN corridor than runs through the canyon for HSR, the CHSRA has proposed [...]

Yesterday was the deadline to submit scoping comments to the California High Speed Rail Authority for the Los Angeles to San Diego project segment. Californians For High Speed Rail submitted the following comments to the CHSRA regarding the route and station choices. You can read the whole document here, and below I excerpt the main [...]

Sorry for the lack of a post yesterday – been busy all day with the California Democratic Party’s Executive Board Meeting here in sunny, beautiful San Diego. Some news from the southwestern corner of the nation: I had the chance to interview Janice Hahn, LA City Council member and candidate for Lieutenant Governor in 2010. [...]