The city of Orange is a wonderful town in the middle of Orange County. Their downtown area, oriented around the Orange Circle and just two blocks from the Orange Metrolink station, is a fantastic place to stroll and shop. Chapman University is just a couple blocks away too, and it’s a thriving hub for students [...]

As a result of the CHSRA agreeing to study track sharing between LA and Anaheim, the EIR for that segment, which was to be released next month, will instead be released in January 2011:
David M. Thomson, an engineer with the consulting firm STV, said the rail authority has pushed back publication of its draft environmental [...]

Yesterday we took a look at the debate over private funding for HSR, and determined that while there are serious issues to consider with how private funding is used, there doesn’t seem to be any real doubt that private funding would indeed materialize. That hasn’t stopped HSR deniers from peddling their misinformation to the media, [...]

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 would [...]