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SPUR Talk: High-Speed Rail on its Way to Northern California
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High-Speed Rail construction is well underway in the Central Valley, said Ben Tripousis, Northern California Regional Director for the California High Speed Rail Authority, during a forum at the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association’s (SPUR) Mission Street center. “The High-Speed Rail question has shifted from ‘if’ to ‘when,'” he told the packed house at today’s […]
SPUR Talk: Streamlining S.F.’s Bike, Ped, & Transit Projects
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"Let's save lives instead of doing studies"
Is the Geary Bus Rapid Transit Project in Jeopardy?
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Photo: plug1 If the Geary Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project doesn’t get some love from advocates and the general public, the project could be in trouble, according to several people closely following the process. "I look to the left, I look to the right, all I see is opposition and criticism," says Joel Ramos, a […]
A Straighter Extension of Caltrain/HSR Into Downtown SF: Is It Worth It?
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By 2029, San Francisco’s Transbay Transit Center — which has been called the “Grand Central of the West” — will allow people to hop on an electrified Caltrain to San Jose and high-speed rail down to Southern California from the same platform. That’s the vision, at least, of planners working on the extension of Caltrain […]
Paradise LOSt (Part I): How Long Will the City Keep Us Stuck in Our Cars?
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The idea that the speed and free-flow of cars is the proxy that is being used across the state of California to measure whether a project is [environmentally] impactful is in the long run undermining the very quality of life [we] are working to protect.