SF News High-Speed Rail Approved in Dramatic State Senate Vote After much hemming and hawing, the threat of lawsuits from NIMBYs on the Peninsula, and much spilt ink about the price tag, it looks like California will get a high-speed rail line after
SF News Forget High Speed Rail, Why Are We Not Cruising to LA? While the High Speed Rail Authority figures out how to round up enough money to lay track and get travelers zipping down to SoCal, Chronicle columnist and noted Jimmy Buffett fan C.W.
SF News New High-Speed Rail Cost Comes In $30 Billion Cheaper You'll recall there was some hubbubb this past winter after the California High-Speed Rail Authority released a revised cost projection that put the project at $100 billion, more than double an original estimate
SF News House Republicans Trying to Kill CA's High-Speed Rail? More sad news for the LA-to-SF high-speed rail line: House GOP members adopted an amendment late last night that "would prohibit California from receiving any high speed rail money in a huge five-year
SF News Experts Say 'No' To $99 Billion California High-Speed Rail Yesterday, a "renowned group of transportation and financial experts" warned lawmakers that funding the state's $99 billion high-speed train is an "immense financial risk." The biggest concern from the group was California's "plan
SF News Federal High-Speed Rail Funds Dry Up, But California Project Far From Dead When the decidedly anti-rail Congress eliminated future funding for high-speed rail late last week, California's bullet train looked to be running out of track real fast. Although House Republicans were eagerly taking credit
SF News CA High-Speed Rail Cost Doubles, But Is Still Doable, According to New Plan The headlines today and yesterday are all blaring the fact that, according to new estimates, the cost of the San Francisco-to-Anaheim high-speed rail line will now be closer to $100 billion, up from
SF News Dreams of a High-Speed Rail to L.A. Being Slowly Smothered By Litigious Towns, Farmers As we've discussed, there are some well-off folks on the Peninsula who would like to see the California high-speed rail project die or at the very least get re-routed over a new bridge
SF News High-Speed Rail Could Now Cost a Whole Lot More? We're starting to wonder if this whole high-speed rail thing is just a pipe-dream we'll tell our grandkids about when they ask why they still have to drive up and down I-5 to
SF News NIMBY Watch: Peninsula Denizens Win Small Victory in High-Speed Rail Battle The California High-Speed Rail Authority says it was caught by surprise this week with a letter from the Bay Area Council and regional transportation agencies calling for a revised high-speed rail plan on
SF News Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Would Prefer Another Bridge Over the Bay Than Seeing High-Speed Rail on the Peninsula [Updated] As we've discussed earlier, wealthy Peninsula communities like Palo Alto and Menlo Park have been seething for years about the plan to bring the LA-SF high-speed rail line through their pristine environs. They've
SF News 'It's Not Us, It's You': PR Agency Breaks Up With High-Speed Rail Authority California's High-Speed Rail project, which has received plenty of badmouthing from peninsula crybabies already, lost it's public relations firm last week when Ogilvy PR decided they just couldn't bear to be in the
SF News Floridians, Too Lazy for High Speed Rail, Donate Their Funds to California While California looks for additional funding to cover the $43 billion price tag on our high-speed rail project, Florida Governor Rock Scott recently turned down $2.4 billion in federal dollars for a
SF News The <em>NYT</em> Hears About High-Speed Rail, And the 'Ghost Town' Terminus We heard early in December about the decision to build the first leg of the California high-speed rail line between Bakersfield and Corcoran, in the Central Valley, with a terminus in a place
SF News SF-LA High Speed Rail Encounters Another Speed Bump Opponents of the proposed high speed rail, which would extend from the Bay Area to Los Angeles have brandished their latest weapon: a tree. It seems that Stanford’s iconic Redwood, “El Palo
SF News Peninsula Wealthy Don't Want No Stinkin High-Speed Rail The cities of Palo Alto, Menlo Park, and Atherton, along with five environmental and citizens groups, filed suit Monday to stop the proposed high-speed rail that will rip through their quiet enclaves, if
SF News Schwarzenegger Visits China, Looks at Bridge Section, Sells Pistachios Where has Gov. Schwarzenegger been during the San Bruno fire disaster, you ask? In China! The former movie star cum California politico headed East to sign part of the East Span of the
SF News Would Anyone Use a SF-LA High-Speed Rail Line? Is It Practical? Everyone touts Europe and Japan as being so awesome for their high-speed rail lines, and America as being backwards for having only one (the Acela line between Boston and D.C., and even
misc Beale Street High Speed Rail Terminus? "Mmmm, yeah, no!" say South Beach Residents CurbedSF is reporting that the denizens of San Francisco's South Beach neighborhood are damn mad at the California High Speed Rail Authority and, as typical, they're not going to take it anymore. The
SF News Why Do Peninsula Folk Fear the High Speed Rail? by Chris Jones The California High Speed Rail Authority released a scoping report [.pdf] yesterday for the San Jose to San Francisco section of the proposed state high speed rail system that will
SF News Obama Announces Plan for Ten High-Speed Rail Designations Across U.S. The Obama Administration made an exciting announcement today regarding Obama's vision for a new era of high-speed rail for U.S. travelers. Obama's Strategic Plan will rebuild existing rail infrastructure and develop a
