Recent Streetsblog SF posts about High-Speed Rail

The lower level of Berlin's main railway station. The Transbay Transit Center could look something like this--if trains ever get there. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Update on Plans to Get Trains into Transbay

By Roger Rudick | Jun 16, 2017 | 60 Comments

The San Francisco Planning Department will be presenting the San Francisco Board of Supervisors with updated plans for getting trains from the Caltrain corridor into the lower level of the Transbay Transit Center.

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Fate of Caltrain Electrification Hangs on Trump’s Budget

By Damien Newton | Apr 26, 2017 | 10 Comments

There will be many news stories generated by the announcement of the details of President Donald Trump's proposed budget next month. In advance of the announcement, the campaign to preserve funding for the electrification of Caltrain is working with advocates around the state and country to preserve a nearly $650 million grant agreement scuttled by the Trump Administration in February.

A Siemens High-speed train touring behind a conventional diesel in California. This kind of operation could be used to greatly improve California rail services in interim phases. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

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Did Some Political Pork Give a Boost to High-Speed Rail?

By Dennis Lytton | Apr 17, 2017 | 60 Comments

It took a bunch of compromises, but Governor Brown passed his $52 billion transportation bill, which included a gas tax increase. To make the political math work, Brown had to get the vote of one Republican. That Republican was Anthony Canella from Ceres, who was promised $500 million in local spending. $400 million of that is […]

A rendering of the Transbay terminal with Caltrain and HSR. Image: Transbay Authority

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Is the Caltrain Downtown Extension in Jeopardy too?

By Roger Rudick | Feb 27, 2017 | 7 Comments

Today, the San Francisco Chronicle ran a story that made it appear that San Francisco County Transportation Authority (CTA) Chairman Aaron Peskin wants to shelve the downtown extension of Caltrain, now that the Trump Administration seems to have jammed up funding for Caltrain electrification. From the Chronicle story: …without an electrified Caltrain line, there can […]

A photoshopped rendering of an electric Caltrain. Image: Bay Rail Alliance

Forces Align to Protect Caltrain Electrification

By Roger Rudick | Feb 10, 2017 | 6 Comments

The Republican Caltrain letter shows that the members of California's GOP delegation don't understand the California High-Speed Rail Program.

French Flair and Bullet Trains at Rail~Volution’s California Day

By Roger Rudick | Oct 13, 2016 | 21 Comments

The Rail~Volution conference at the San Francisco Hyatt concluded yesterday with three hours of presentations and break-out meetings about California High-Speed Rail. The focus: how to build the communities we want around HSR stations in Los Angeles, San Jose and Fresno. An important part of that was to learn from the experts: the French designers […]

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