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As promised the California High Speed Rail Authority has published the 2008 Business Plan. Remember, this would have been ready in time for the election had Republicans like Roy Ashburn not blocked passage of the state budget for three months. The plan itself is primarily an update of construction costs and ridership estimates. The overall [...]
Now that we have won the fight for Proposition 1A, we need to start thinking about our next steps. This blog isn’t going anywhere – I founded it in March to promote the project. Of necessity it became a pro-Prop 1A site (and before that we spent a lot of time on AB 3034), but [...]
In the comments on yesterday’s post rafael, one of HSR’s strongest and most knowledgeable supporters, gave a list of changes to AB 3034 and the overall project that the State Senate is likely to consider. It’s a good guide to how the politics may play out over the next week and I wanted to give [...]
According to an article the LA Times just put up on their website, Union Pacific Railroad is balking at sharing its right of way with high speed trains. For context, the CHSRA plan has always involved building HSR-specific tracks alongside existing rails currently owned by UP, to minimize environmental impacts and disruption to existing urban [...]
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