SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: High-Speed Rail Gets New CEO A Commonwealth Club debate among SF's mayoral candidates has been canceled; the CA high-speed rail project has a new CEO; and another United Boeing jet had to turn around after taking off from SFO due to a maintenance problem.
SF News High-Speed Rail Now Has Full Environmental Approvals For SF-to-LA Route While still sorely short on funds to actually get built, California's high-speed rail project reached a planning milestone on Thursday, with full approval now secured for a rail line linking San Francisco to Los Angeles.
SF News Feds Pony Up $3.4 Billion for Caltrain Extension to Salesforce Transit Center, Which Is Now Being Called ‘The Portal’ The high-speed rail expansion connecting the Fourth and King streets Caltrain station to the Salesforce Transit Center just got a major boost, as the Federal Transit Administration just kicked down $3.4 billion to make the project a reality.
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 High-Speed Rail Could Finally Be Coming to Salesforce Transit Center, But Only If the Feds Kick Down Billions It might be time to dust off those dreams of the long-elusive high-speed rail coming to downtown San Francisco, but these dreams are contingent on the federal government paying for roughly half of the $6.7 billion price tag.
SF News Central Valley Portion of High-Speed Rail Gets Funded In New State Budget The political wrangling has finally ended, and the last $4.2 billion in the state's high-speed rail bond funding is being spent on the rail system in the newly approved state budget.
SF News First Bit of California High-Speed Rail in NorCal Approved, Still Not Coming Until 2031 One 90-mile segment of the elusive California high-speed rail project has won approval to connect San Jose and Merced, but a look at the projected competition dates will certainly dampen any excitement you may feel over this.
SF News 13.5-Mile Tunnel Drives Up Cost Estimate For Bay Area High-Speed Rail Link The price tag for California's beleaguered high-speed rail project just went up again, and with inflation and construction costs rising we can expect it to just continue rising until the construction is actually all underway.
SF News Sacramento Legislators Are Holding Up the High-Speed Rail Project... Again California's beleaguered high-speed rail project hasn't been abandoned yet, but its ballooning costs and ever-extending timeline are enough to make anyone wonder if any of us will be alive to see this thing up and running.
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 The SF-to-LA High-Speed Rail May Not Actually Happen In Our Lifetimes A 23-year-old plan to build a high-speed rail connecting Northern and Southern California appears to maybe, possibly, finally be dead. After years of lawsuits over its route and partisan bickering over how to
SF News It's Come To This: Caltrain Launches Online Petition In Effort To Save Electrification Plan Please sign the White House petition urging the President to save Electrification & 9,600 jobs. #StandWithCaltrain https://t.co/QthSSNZQoT pic.twitter.com/Zpg72Co4q1— Caltrain (@Caltrain) February 20, 2017 Online petitions! They're
SF News Great, Now GOP Could Stop California High-Speed Rail Funding In Its Tracks California's high-speed rail project continues forward with anything but high speed, finally breaking ground in January of 2015 in Fresno where the first phase of construction sought to connect that Central Valley town
SF News Atherton Wealthy Will Still Maybe Try To Block High-Speed Rail NIMBYs throughout the state of California have been crying foul for years about the gigantic and decades-long high-speed rail project that will, someday, connect Los Angeles and San Francisco and ultimately San Diego
SF News CA Lawmakers Gripe About Change In High-Speed Rail Construction Plans A change announced in February in the construction schedule of California's controversial, gargantuan high-speed rail project one that would connect San Jose to the Central Valley ahead of building the SoCal segment that
SF News Major Proposal To Remove I-280 Overpass And Caltrain Rail Yard Moves Forward A proposed (extremely expensive) plan, first floated last May, to remove the existing Caltrain rail yard as well as parts of the I-280 overpass and off-ramp in SoMa/Potrero in anticipation of electrified
SF News High-Speed Rail Plans Change: Bay Area Could Get Trains Ahead Of LA You may be inclined to think that you will never live to see a high-speed rail link between San Francisco and Los Angeles and depending on your age and overall health you may
SF News Elon Musk's Ultra-High-Speed 'Hyperloop' Is Getting Built As Test Concept This Year Tesla founder and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk will see his fantastical dream of a mode of transportation that floats on air in a steel tube and travels just under the speed of sound
SF News Mayor Wants To Reroute Caltrain Past Warriors Arena, Tear Down 280 Overpass The big news being broken by mustache twins Matier & Ross today is a potential plan, unveiled in a closed-door meeting last week at City Hall, to drastically rethink the routing of Caltrain
SF News California's High-Speed Rail Finally Breaks Ground, In Fresno, Tomorrow The much dreamt-of, argued-over, fretted-over, celebrated and maligned high-speed rail system from San Francisco to Los Angeles, which will not be completed until many of us are middle aged or entering retirement, is
SF News City Cuts Deal With Transbay District Developers For Downtown Rail Extension On Monday we talked about the rumblings from developers about how they didn't want to pony up the increasingly large sums they were on the hook for as part of a special assessment
SF News Sacramento Judge Puts High-Speed Rail On The Slow Track Yesterday in California's flood-prone capital city, a superior court judge twice slammed the brakes on plans for the state's high-speed rail between San Francisco and Los Angeles. While the two rulings handed down
SF News Megabus Brings Back $1 Bus Rides to Los Angeles Megabus, the popular and dirt-cheap bus service that has been shuttling East Coasters and Midwesterners around the country in WiFi-enabled buses for years now, has just announced they have returned to the West
SF News High Speed Rail: 'World Is Full Of NIMBYS And Fearful Men,' Says Gov. Brown After signing an $8 billion funding measure on Wednesday that will start construction on "the country's fastest rail system," Governor Jerry Brown climbed atop platform at the burgeoning Transbay Terminal in downtown San
SF News High-Speed Rail Not in the Clear Yet Though the California legislature has given the green-light for the long-awaited, long-debated high-speed rail connecting L.A. to S.F., there still remain five persnickety lawsuits to be settled or litigated in the
