Note: Scroll down to see two important updates to this post. There’s an interesting agenda item to be discussed at Friday’s Peninsula Cities Consortium meeting – scroll down to Item #7: PCC Agenda 041610 Final I don’t know who requested this item be placed on the agenda, though that would be interesting to know. It [...]

Between 2000 and 2008, the price of oil rose by 600%, from about $20 per barrel to nearly $140 per barrel. In 2008 the price increases spiked, but as the chart below indicates, the increase was underway well before the spike occurred: That increase had a number of important effects. When the price of a [...]

When Prop 1A passed in November 2008, it included $950 million for other passenger rail systems that would connect to the HSR line. Much of that money will be awarded in May, and Bay Area agencies are in the hunt: Five Bay Area train operators say they are entitled to as much as $400 million [...]

In what is described as “informal advice” provided by Deputy Attorney General George Spanos, the California High Speed Rail Authority has been advised that the proposal of ending the HSR line in San José and forcing SF-bound riders to transfer to Caltrain to complete the journey is not permitted under Proposition 1A, approved by voters [...]