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line may head to Valley
By TIM SHEEHAN
The Fresno Bee
SACRAMENTO — The California
High- Speed Rail Authority decided it's time to start pinching
pennies as it seeks $2.43 billion in federal rail funds
rejected last month by Florida.
Authority board members on Wednesday approved the agency's
application to the Federal Railroad Administration for money
to build the state's first section of high-speed train tracks
from Merced to Bakersfield. If the money comes through,
it could enable the state to complete the 180-mile backbone
of the statewide system.
A contingent from Merced drove to Sacramento for the hearings:
Mayor Bill Spriggs, Supervisor John Pedrozo and Lee Boese
Jr., chairman of the Greater Merced High-Speed Rail Committee.
They were all enthusiastic about Wednesday's development.
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Valley
rail line could expand to Merced, Bakersfield
Fresno Bee
By Tim Sheehan / The Fresno Bee Money from Florida
could put Merced and Bakersfield on track to be included
in construction of California's first section of high-speed
rail. The California High-Speed Rail Authority, at a meeting
today in Sacramento, ...
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California
expected to seek high-speed rail funds rejected by Florida
Sacramento News - Local and Breaking Sacramento News
Sacramento
Bee -- source: Sacramento Connect
CALIFORNIA
HIGH-SPEED RAIL AUTHORITY TO APPLY FOR FLORIDA’S $2.4
BILLION
Goal
to Complete the Merced-Bakersfield Backbone of the Statewide
System
March 30, 2011
SACRAMENTO – The California
High-Speed Rail Authority voted unanimously today to apply
for all of the high-speed rail funding recently returned
to the federal government by the state of Florida. The Authority
Board of Directors approved the staff recommendation that
California pursue the $2.43 billion recently made available
and offer a 20 percent state match in order to make California
more competitive for these funds.
The resulting funds could allow the completion of the entire
backbone of the statewide system – linking Merced
and Bakersfield, including stations in each respective city.
In addition to completing the backbone, it could also allow
the Authority to build either north or south – north
39 additional miles toward the Bay Area or south, past Bakersfield,
up to the Tehachapi Mountains.
Obtaining just over half of Florida’s money, along
with the state match, would still give the Authority the
potential to lay the track that will connect Merced to Bakersfield
– the critical “backbone” of the statewide
system where high-speed trains will travel at 220 miles
per hour and ensure that California’s system is competitive
with other modes of travel.
“California has proven that it can and will lead the
nation with a vision of true high-speed rail,” said
Curt Pringle, Chairman of the California High-Speed Rail
Authority Board. “Every mile of track laid in the
Central Valley represents another step toward realizing
a statewide system to connect north and south, which will
bring private investment, job creation, and economic strength
to California.”
Florida’s declined funding, if re-allocated to California,
has the potential to create up to 64,000 additional well-paying
jobs – in addition to the more than 100,000 jobs that
will be created with the initial $5.5 billion already secured
to begin construction on the high-speed rail system.
“Applying every new dollar to extend construction
of our system’s backbone in the Central Valley is
the logical next step to build toward connecting our system
into metropolitan areas,” said Roelof van Ark, CEO
of the California High-Speed Rail Authority. “A continued
and long-term commitment from the federal government is
needed in order to give the very interested private sector
the confidence it needs to invest.”
At a special Board meeting of the Authority today, residents
and elected officials from the Merced and Bakersfield communities
spoke in support of vying for the re-allocated funds in
order to complete the system’s backbone.
Governor Jerry Brown has joined California’s two U.S.
Senators in supporting as many of the re-allocated dollars
as possible being redirected to California, urging the President
to reallocate the funds to California and saying “The
$2 billion that Florida rejected are more than welcome here.”
Board members also expressed, at the meeting, a desire to
work with partner agencies such as the Los Angeles County
Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the California
Department of Transportation (Caltrans), relative to their
requests for federal funds that would complement the high-speed
rail system.
Newly appointed Board Member Bob Balgenorth, president of
the California State Building and Construction Trades Council
and a former member of the California Transportation Commission,
attended the meeting. Board member Russ Burns was absent
and therefore did not cast a vote.
The federal government recently
announced that states can apply for Florida’s
returned $2.43 billion in high-speed rail funding. This
funding includes $1.63 billion in American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funding and $800 million in Fiscal
Year 2010 transportation funding. Applications are due by
April 4, 2011.
Under the Authority’s proposal, electrifying the track,
purchasing the trains, and operating passenger service would
come at a later phase of development.
California’s planned high-speed rail system continues
to undergo environmental review, and nothing in the Authority’s
application for federal funds prejudges that review. The
final track alignment through the Central Valley is dependent
on the environmental review process, and therefore the ultimate
number of track miles possible from re-allocated funds from
Florida to California depends on that environmental determination.
The draft environmental review for the Central Valley segments
is scheduled to be completed in June/July and is scheduled
to go before the Authority’s Board of Directors in
late 2011 / early 2012 for a decision on the final alignment.
The California High-Speed Rail Authority is developing an
800-mile high-speed train system that will operate at speeds
of up to 220 miles per hour, connecting the state’s
major urban centers, including the Bay Area, Fresno, Los
Angeles and San Diego. The first phase of the project, San
Francisco to Los Angeles and Anaheim, is projected to cost
$43 billion. Initial infrastructure construction will begin
in the Central Valley, the backbone of the system, in 2012.
The project is being funded through a voter-approved state
bond, federal funding awards and public-private partnerships.
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Officials
take steps toward high-speed rail
By Troy Anderson, Staff Writer
Posted: 06/13/2010 06:10:58 AM PDT
Updated: 06/13/2010 06:14:15 AM PDT
With momentum slowly building for a high-speed rail system
across California, elected officials and business leaders
from around the world will gather this week in Universal
City for a major rail conference.
The
U.S. High Speed Rail Association Conference will offer a
closer look at the plans and proposed routes for what could
become the largest public works project in California history.
The
conference will also give leaders a chance to explore the
long-term impacts, including the potential seizing of residential
and business property to make room for tracks between Los
Angeles, Palmdale and Anaheim.
"We're
really the only industrialized nation left that is just
now getting around to building high-speed rail," said
association president/CEO Andy Kunz. "This is one of
the best forms of transportation ever invented. It has enormous
capacity to move large numbers of people quickly and easily
without delays." Under one proposal, the Palmdale-to-Los
Angeles route would follow State Route 58/Soledad Canyon
from Palmdale to Sylmar and then along the Metrolink railroad
line to Los Angeles Union Station. Potential station locations
include Palmdale, Sylmar and Burbank. "This portion
is still being evaluated, but there are definitely right-of-way
impacts in building dedicated tracks in that corridor that
would result in impacts on commercial, industrial and residential
buildings," said Alex Clifford, the executive officer
for high-speed rail at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
Some
critics see high-speed rail as an expensive waste of money
at a time when government funds are drying up amid big budget
deficits and a weak economy. "It's really just an extravagance
that very few people are likely to use," said Kris
Vosburgh, executive director of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers
Association. "We are hearing extravagant promises,
but this is just going to run us deeper into debt. We are
a state with the lowest bond rating in the nation, have
the third-highest unemployment rate and this is an extravagance
we can't afford."
Although
high-speed rail in the United States has been beset by false
starts and slow progress for three decades, some experts
say the tide is turning.
President
Obama recently announced that California will receive $2.3
billion in stimulus funds to help build an 800-mile-long,
high-speed rail line linking Sacramento and the San Francisco
Bay Area to Los Angeles and San Diego. In November 2008,
California voters approved Proposition 1A, a $9.95 billion
bond measure to build the exclusive rail lines that would
zip people throughout the state on sleek, electric trains
traveling up to 220 mph.
Last
month, the state's high-speed rail authority named Roelof
van Ark, a senior executive with more than 30 years of experience
as an engineer and manager for some of the world's leading
transportation companies, as its new CEO at a salary of
$375,000.
If
the plan receives the necessary approvals, construction
on the first phase - from Anaheim to the Bay Area - is scheduled
to begin in 2012 with the Anaheim to Los Angeles leg.
"We're
in a very early phase and still conducting environmental
reviews of the whole system, but there is a tremendous amount
of momentum to it," said Jeff Barker, deputy director
of the California High-Speed Rail Authority. "The state
has agreed to put $9.95 billion into this and we'll leverage
that money to bring an additional $34 billion to the state."
High-speed rail proponents say the system will help relieve
pressure on the state's highway system and airports, while
reducing the state's oil consumption. By 2030, the state's
population is expected to grow to 50million people, which
will nearly double interregional travel to 1 billion trips
per year. They claim a high-speed rail system will alleviate
the need to build thousands of additional miles of new freeways
and dozens of new airport departure gates and runways. The
system is being designed to accommodate up to 100 million
riders per year.
Proponents
also say the project - envisioned as part of a national
high-speed rail system - will create 600,000 construction
jobs, including 125,000 to build the Palmdale-to-L.A. leg
and 92,000 to extend the line to Anaheim.
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Lee
Boese Jr. and Benjamin Duran: High-speed rail -- the fast
track to revitalization
Columnists
Saturday, May. 15, 2010
The
fortunes of a small farming community in Japan were highlighted
recently in a national newspaper, and the story should provide
encouragement for our own community.
The article focused on the
efforts of these Japanese farmers as they lobbied for a
high-speed rail station to be built in their community,
a largely rural, agricultural area isolated from major transportation
hubs and known for high unemployment.
Through their efforts a high-speed
rail station was built and the community literally changed
its economic destiny, lowering unemployment to single digits
and attracting major companies that have employed many of
their citizens in cutting-edge industries.
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Modesto
Bee endorses Merced high speed railyard
March
28, 4:39 PM • Modesto
Railroad Examiner • Patrick Patterson
The
editorial board of the Modesto Bee actually gets it. The
high speed rail system that is slated to be built in California
is going to be a source of jobs.
Merced
County is offering the use of 150 acres of the former Castle
Air Force Base in Atwater to the state for a lease of $1
a year to build a heavy maitenence yard for the states High
Speed Rail system.
The
Atwater location has multiple advantages for the sytem as
a whole. It has a proximity to both the BNSF and Union Pacific
north south mainlines. It has a cetralized location that
will be very near the junction of the Los Angeles to San
Francisco and the Los Angeles to Sacramento lines. It also
has access to the airfiled at the Castle site that can handle
large cargo aircraft.
From
a local perspective the benefits of the construction and
operation heavy maintence facility in an area with chronic
unemployment is obvious. It is estimated that the operation
of the facility will create up to 1500 on-going jobs.
That
is assuming that the that the high speed rail effort isn't
derailed.
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California
High-Speed Rail Authority Names New CEO: Roelof van Ark
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At
today's Board of Directors meeting in Sacramento,
the California High-Speed Rail Authority named Roelof
van Ark, a senior executive with more than 30 years
experience as an engineer and manager for some of
the world's leading transportation companies, as the
agency's chief executive officer.
Van
Ark, 58, of New York, is President of Alstom Transportation
Inc., the North American subsidiary of France's Alstom
SA, makers of the fastest trains in the world and
builders of Europe's TGV. The company has 65,000 employees
and annual revenues of $20 billion.
"Building
the first high-speed rail system in the nation is
no ordinary job. It is the biggest public works project
in the country and the largest environmental review
in history," said Authority Chair Curt Pringle.
"Roelof van Ark is the world-class manager and
engineer we need to take the reins of this project
and turn the promise of high-speed rail into a reality
for the people of California."
Van
Ark, named to the job after an extensive search and
candidate screening process, starts June 1 and will
receive an annual salary of $375,000, substantially
less than van Ark's current compensation in the private
sector. He will be just the second top manager since
the Authority was formed in 1996, and he succeeds
Mehdi Morshed, who retired after serving as executive
director from 1998-2010.
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"California
is leading the nation in high-speed rail," van Ark
said. "I have seen how high-speed rail projects transform
the places where they re-built creating incredible new opportunities
by connecting the world s great cities. As someone who has
devoted his career to this industry, there's no doubt in
my mind that California is the place to be, and I'm honored
to be given the opportunity to work with all partners to
move California's high-speed train project forward."
Van
Ark has been President at Alstom Transportation Inc. for
the past five years, and he previously served as President
of Aviation Security for Invision Technologies Inc.
Prior
to that he spent more than 20 years as an executive, managing
director, general manager, senior technical manager and
senior project engineer for Siemens, the manufacturers of
the popular ICE high speed trains. While with Siemens van
Ark worked in Germany, South Africa and most recently in
Sacramento, where he served as president and CEO of Siemens
Transportation Systems from 1999-2002.
He
holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and
an MBA from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg,
South Africa.
Click
here to view Van Ark's bio and a fact sheet on
the CEO search process.
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California
wants Florida's rejected rail funds
San Diego Union Tribune
The California High-Speed Rail Authority
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High-speed
rail holds promise of major economic boost for us in Kern
County
Bakersfield Californian
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Outlined for Key Segments of High-Speed Rail
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California
High-Speed Rail Authority Seeks New Federal Funds
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HSR
could be end of BHS as we know it
Bakersfield Californian
Carter said the district will expect the California High-Speed
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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is expected to approve the choice
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French
Train Exec Hired as CA HighSpeed Rail Boss HighSpeed Rail
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Calif
High-Speed Rail Authority gets new executive
San Jose Mercury News
An executive of the company that builds France's bullet
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High-level
delegation pushes Shinkansen in US
Asahi Shimbun
The government and a coalition of large companies have embarked
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Diego area State Senator Kehoe announces that California
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High-Speed Rail Jobs: SB 964 would spend $25 million of
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training program to construct, maintain, ...
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Scientific
Journal Recognizes High-Speed Rail Ridership Model
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The paper, "California Statewide Model for High-Speed
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US
high-speed rail's ship finally comes in
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Post
In April, for example, the Los Angeles Times reported that
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PUBLIC
AGENDA: School board, high-speed rail
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HIGH-SPEED RAIL ... The city will host a public meeting
on the proposed high-speed-rail system to discuss the California
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Study:
Caltrain's survival may hinge on electrification
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA (KGO) -- A new report suggests that Caltrain
needs to trade in its fleet of diesel trains and link its
future to high speed rail in order ...
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Kern
hopes to overtake Fresno's 1500-job train maintenance proposal
Bakersfield Californian
BY JOHN COX, Californian staff writer Even in the case of
California's high-speed rail project, victory does not always
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High-speed
rail on the range?
Salt Lake Tribune
Snow has joined officials from the Utah Transit Authority
and counterparts in Denver, Phoenix and Reno to form the
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Tunnel
route urged for high-speed rail
San Jose Mercury News
The district is sending a letter detailing its concerns
to the California High-Speed Rail Authority. "The district
urges the authority to give full ...
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San
Carlos' turn to tear into high-speed rail project, or not
San Jose Mercury News
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City
unleashes flood of high-speed-rail concerns
Palo Alto Online
by Gennady Sheyner Insufficient outreach, inaccurate projections
and a shoddy business plan have all plagued the California
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Merced
high-speed rail station detailed
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The California High Speed Rail Authority is accepting feedback
online at www.cahighspeedrail.ca.gov. Another meeting about
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Ellington:
High-speed railways should be US opportunity
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unleashes flood of high-speed-rail concerns
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May Support Bullet-Train Makers for US Bids
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speed rail links,” said Yamagami. “It'll help
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under way to repeal California high-speed rail bond measure
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Park, Atherton reaffirm objections to high-speed-rail review
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CITY: COMMUNITY MEETINGS SCHEDULED REGARDING PROGRESS OF
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Atherton,
Menlo Park, Palo Alto draft letters slamming high-speed
rail project
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Jose Mercury News
By Jessica Bernstein-Wax Atherton, Menlo Park and Palo Alto
next week will consider approving letters that tell the
California High-Speed Rail Authority
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Peninsula
cities to consider repealing $10B high-speed rail bond
Bizjournals.com
Instead its has held public sessions to inform residents
about the project and has discussed concerns with the California
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Effort
under way to repeal high-speed rail bond measure
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report on bullet train section in Los Angeles delayed
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Fresno
Hopes to Land High Speed Rail
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City
Council rejects both proposed high speed rail routes ...
By Jeff Nachtigal
Instead of endorsing one of two proposed routes for the
train — the so-called “blue” or “red”
routes — the council voted unanimously to “strongly
recommend” the California High Speed Rail Authority
comes up with an alternative route ...
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A-1 goes through Madera County,
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By AP
(AP) – An executive of the company that builds France's
bullet trains has been chosen to lead the California High-Speed
Rail Authority. The authority on Thursday announced Roelof
van Ark as its chief executive. ...
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Ashburn
Honors High Speed Rail Director - News - CA State Senator
...
By Senator Roy Ashburn
Morshed served as a member of the California high-speed
rail commission from 1994 to 1996 and was appointed as the
first Executive Director of the California High speed rail
Authority in 1998. He has guided the development of the
...
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High-Speed
Trains May Be Coming to California, Florida | Asia ...
By admin
People in Europe and Asia have enjoyed high-speed trains
for years. This Japanese train set a speed record of 581.
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High-Speed
Rail Back on Australian Agenda « Breakthrough Generation
By Leigh Ewbank
High Speed Rail between Melbourne and Sydney would provide
a viable alternative to flying. The carbon impact of air
travel came to the fore this week when it was revealed that
the European air industry is more carbon intensive than
the Icelandic volcano ... The Obama administration invested
$8 billion in last year's economic stimulus—the American
Recovery and Reinvestment Act—for HSR projects in
Florida and California that will lay the foundation for
a national network. ...
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California
High Speed Rail Blog » Arsenic, Burlingame High, and
...
By Robert Cruickshank
Help me understand a letter being sent by the San Mateo
Union High School District to the California High Speed
Rail Authority that claims a tunnel is needed to avoid stirring
up arsenic near Burlingame High School: ...
California
High Speed Rail Blog - http://www.cahsrblog.com/
The
Burlingame Voice: High Cost Rail, Part 10. An academic review.
By Russ Cohen
The proposed California High Speed Rail line would be more
expensive than every other active HSR proposal in the country
put together. While subsidized by everyone who pays the
regressive sales tax, its users would have a higher than
...
The
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Cities
reject effort to repeal rail | San Francisco Examiner
By Andrea Koskey
City officials on the Peninsula declined to support a movement
to repeal a state bill that provides funding for a high-speed
rail system in California. (Courtesy photo). Members of
the Peninsula Cities Consortium rejected the request of
...
Local
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Bay
Area commuters confront possible future without Caltrain
| San ...
By Will Reisman
A big hurdle was also cleared when the California High-Speed
Rail Authority reaffirmed its position to run its trains
through the Peninsula on the Caltrain corridor. As long
as high-speed rail — and the funding opportunities
it brings ...
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City
fights for Transbay Terminal | San Francisco Examiner
By Melissa Griffin
Apparently, there was still some confusion because within
days of the 2008 election, Quentin Kopp, our delegate to
the California High-Speed Rail Authority, said he had no
intention of using high-speed rail money to move the Caltrain
...
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Almanac
: High-speed rail meetings in Redwood City
The first meeting, set for April 29, will be hosted by the
California High-Speed Rail Authority and Peninsula Rail
Program, city officials said. High-Speed Rail staff will
outline existing conditions of the proposed segment through
...
AlmanacNews.com
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Is
the U.S. Ready for a Sustained High-Speed Rail Funding Source
...
By Yonah Freemark
This kind of stable commitment to the high-speed rail program
is absolutely vital to the system's development, as it will
be impossible for major projects such as California's Los
Angeles-San Francisco line to be built without an ...
The
Transport Politic - http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/
City
to hold high-speed public workshop Tuesday at Merced Senior
...
The workshop will feature presentations by the California
High-Speed Rail Station Planning Team from AECOM, Inc. AECOM
is a consultant hired by the California High-Speed Rail
Authority to design station plans for the Merced area. ...
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Pedestrian
View Of Los Angeles: Bullet train officials agree to ...
By Pedestrian View of LA
In the 6-1 voted at a meeting in San Jose, the California
High-Speed Rail Authority agreed to revisit a plan, discarded
in 2008, to share existing rail where feasible with commuter
and freight services operating along a 34-mile route ...
Pedestrian
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Creating
New Jobs by Investing in High-Speed Rail ...
By admin
President Obama, joined by Vice President Biden, announces
$8 billion in Recovery Act funding for high-speed rail projects
that.
CapitolCareerSource.com
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California
High Speed Rail?
California is pushing forward on a massive investment in
high speed rail, offering the ability for people to travel
between San Francisco and Los Angeles in ...
www.mcguire.com/posts/868-california-high-speed-rail-
California
High Speed Rail Blog » Third LA-Vegas Train Proposal
...
By Robert Cruickshank
As if the battle between DesertXpress and maglev wasn't
creating enough passenger rail activity on the Southern
California to Las Vegas corridor, there's now a third passenger
rail proposal for the corridor emerging. ...
California
High Speed Rail Blog - http://www.cahsrblog.com/
Even
if your standard isn't the standard, it's still a standard
...
By Chairman Pip
Luas is similar to the light rail systems operating in Great
Britain, in that it operates both on street and on disused
rail alignments. However, as is often the case, there are
significant problems with it, first and foremost being that
the two current lines are completely ... Select Category,
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Calif.
bullet train environmental report delayed | Washington Examiner
Publication of a draft report will be delayed from May until
next January while the California High-Speed Rail Authority
deals with concerns from cities about the route. On Wednesday,
state officials said pushing back publication of the ...
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California High Speed Rail Blog Westlake Theatre Listed
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Mike's
Rails: What is High Speed Rail, Anyways
By MikesRails
"High Speed Rail" is occupying a lot of editorial
space right now. Look at today's examples from: Texas -
The Dallas Morning News California - KFSN TV Fresno The
Texas writer speaks of German ICE trains and why can't we
have them in ...
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