SF News Saturday Links: Shark Smacks Surfer in Marin County, Leaves Imprint on Surfboard Tolls on seven Bay Area bridges will increase by 50 cents January 1; a hiker in the South Bay was found safe after he went missing for twelve hours the night of Christmas Eve; and a shark smacked a surfer’s board from below in Marin, but the surfer wasn't injured.
SF News As Trump Hopes to Yank $4 Billion From California High-Speed Rail, State Looks for Private Funding The Trump administration says they’re pulling $4 billion in federal funding for California’s now-three-decade-old dream of an SF-to-LA high-speed rail system, and the project’s new leader is looking for ways to get investors to subsidize it.
SF News Someone’s Trying to Make a San Francisco-to-LA Overnight Train Happen Again There’s another attempt underway for an SF-to-LA overnighter that would compete with airline travel, this time a train service, which has made progress on getting access to the existing train tracks the trip would require.
SF News High-Speed Rail Still Seems Like a Far-Off Dream, But Designers Are Finalizing the Train Interiors As things move ahead, with a hope and a prayer, on California's high-speed rail project, the first segment of which is on track to open in 2030, we have some new renderings of what the train interiors may look like.
SF News Design Firm Debuts New Renderings of California High-Speed Rail A design studio contracted through the state's high-speed rail budget created new designs for the stations in Fresno, Merced, Hanford, and Bakersfield, the initial four stops along the proposed interim high-speed rail line.
SF News Zillionth Version of High-Speed Rail Plan Introduced, Funding Totally Uncertain For just $714 million, riders will be able to get from SF to San Jose in a mere 45 minutes under the umpteenth iteration of the high-speed rail plan.
SF News California to Receive $2.25 Billion for High Speed Rail The Federal Railroad Administration announced last night that California will be receiving $2.25 billion in stimulus dollars for use in constructing the high speed rail system. Huzzah! While this is only about
