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 [...]

In a letter dated March 23, 2010, the CEOs of Metro (Los Angeles County’s transportation agency) and the Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) called on the CHSRA to reexamine track sharing on the Los Angeles to Anaheim segment: Metro/OCTA letter to CHSRA As you can see, the letter argues that shared use of the corridor [...]

If you’ve ever been to Oakland or Berkeley, or driven through the MacArthur Maze just east of the Bay Bridge toll plaza, you’ve probably seen the massive freeway viaduct shown below in one of the few images I could find of it: View Larger Map The viaduct above the roadway (viewed from the transition road [...]

Back in 1989, after Orange County voters had approved Measure M the previous year (a sales tax increase to fund freeway expansion), my high school began to lose its front lawn to a freeway. Interstate 5 was the target of the widening, and Tustin High School was in the way. Most of the front lawn [...]