Just over a week ago, as I sat in bumper-to-bumper traffic on US 101 southbound in San Martin, on a freeway packed full of traffic headed to the Gilroy Garlic Festival, I asked my wife rhetorically “how on earth can anyone in Gilroy look at this traffic and not be beating down the door to [...]

I’ve written a lot about the so-called “Green Dividend” at this blog in the last two years. It’s a phenomenon found in cities with good mass transit networks: residents save money that would have gone to buy gas because of available transportation alternatives, and that savings creates new economic activity and value. Portland, Oregon was [...]

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 [...]

As high speed rail planning proceeds along the proposed SF-LA-Anaheim route, more details become known, and more potential conflicts and obstacles appear. That’s an inevitable aspect of planning a project this significant and this big. It’s also an unfortunate side effect of the CHSRA having been a sparsely-funded agency for so many years, making it [...]