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We’re seeing a new anti-high speed rail argument unfold in California, and it needs to be smacked down hard. An editorial in the Santa Cruz Sentinel argues that the state’s road maintenance backlog cannot be addressed at the same time as we build new transportation systems like high speed rail. Rather than maintaining what we [...]
The City of Gilroy is about to launch its HSR study, which will examine vertical alignment options as well as where a station should go. If you’ve been following along, you’d know that there are two proposals on the table: a downtown station along the existing tracks, at or very near the Caltrain station; and [...]
In the summer of 2008, the high speed rail bond proposal was altered in order to address criticisms some project supporters had about possible sprawl in the west side of the San Joaquin Valley. AB 3034, the bill that became Prop 1A and was approved by voters that fall, specifically ruled out any station location [...]
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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