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In 2010 and 2011 there were a lot of tense discussions in the San Gabriel Valley regarding a possible high speed rail alignment, with concerns in cities such as Alhambra and Rosemead about losing homes to a rail route. (See here for a bit of background.) This past week, the Southern California Association of Governments [...]
Although the Los Angeles-San Diego portion of the California HSR project won’t be built until the 2020s, planning work is still going ahead on it. In the San Gabriel Valley, where some local residents began flipping out once they heard about the project, the California High Speed Rail Authority is addressing concerns by proposing an [...]
Things are getting rather busy for me this month, with the election approaching, so posts may be a bit shorter than usual – I’ll be back up to my usual in-depth reportage after we learn whether California will continue the HSR project under Jerry Brown or whether it will get the Chris Christie treatment under [...]
The headline doesn’t remotely fit the content, but this editorial from the Pasadena Star-News is pretty good: If Californians want to actually travel on a high-speed train, as opposed to reading 30 years of op-ed pieces about the concept, as we already have, then they’ll realize the train has to go somewhere. Nowhere doesn’t work. [...]
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