Day: August 27, 2009
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High Speed Rail Authority Says Ruling Won’t Affect Timeline or Funding
A Sacramento judge ruled this week that the California High Speed Rail Authority failed to provide an adequate description of the San Francisco to Los Angeles high speed train project in its Environmental Impact Report. Critics of the project hailed it as an important victory, but the fine print of the decision may leave less room for their celebration, as the court rejected contentions about the project's route, biological impacts, and ability to induce sprawl in the Central Valley.
August 27, 2009
The Power of Transit-Oriented Development
Back in the late 1970s, when Washington's Metrorail system first began operating in Arlington County, Virginia, the future of Arlington and other old, inner suburbs was far from certain. Across the Potomac, the District of Columbia was suffering from depopulation, rapidly rising crime rates, and serious fiscal difficulties.
August 27, 2009
In Defense of High-Speed Rail
Today on the Streetsblog Network, we've got a post from Yonah Freemark at The Transport Politic
on the importance of funding both intercity and intracity rail, despite
limits on the amount of money available. Freemark takes on the argument
that investment in transportation within cities should trump the construction of more efficient rail connections between cities:
August 27, 2009
Today’s Headlines
Judge Sides with Peninsula HSR Opponents; Project Could Face Big Delay (Merc, The Alamanac) Truck Driver Being Investigated for DUI After Slamming Into a Muni Bus (ABC7) 52-year-old Bicyclist Killed by a Hit-and-Run Driver in Northeast Portland (Bike Portland) “Gavin Newsom’s SUV Big Enough to Best” the Culture Bus (NBC Bay Area, SF Citizen) Santa … Continued
August 27, 2009