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The Peninsula isn’t the only place in Northern California where anti-rail activism is having an impact. Across the bay in Livermore, the City Council recently voted to oppose a downtown station in favor of the inferior I-580 alignment. This was a reversal of the Council’s earlier position, and as in Palo Alto, it came after [...]
Since at least 2008, Peninsula NIMBYs have seen their salvation in the Altamont Pass alignment. The logic here is that by crossing the bay at Dumbarton, and somehow getting out toward the Tri-Valley area and crossing into the Central Valley at Altamont instead of at Pacheco Pass, there won’t be any high speed trains at [...]
Back in July 2008, the California High Speed Rail Authority approved using the Pacheco Pass route to link the Bay Area to the Central Valley. Their reasoning included the following: The Pacheco Pass alignment, rather than one through the Altamont Pass further to the north, was the fastest and “most environmentally responsible option” for the [...]
Over at Wired Magazine, Jason Kambitsis has an article that’s getting lots of coverage around the transit blogs. In the article, he argues HSR is a “conduit of sprawl”: It’s fast, it’s efficient and it is the future of transportation, but will high-speed rail cause sprawl? Yes, it could, warn some urban planners. Despite the [...]
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