Recent Streetsblog SF posts about High-speed Rail

A rendering of the Pacheco pass alignment. Image: CaHSRA
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Documents Completed on San Francisco Leg of High-Speed Rail

By Roger Rudick | | No Comments
The next step towards getting the San Francisco to Merced section of California's High-speed Rail project shovel-ready was taken Friday with the completion of a required environmental study of the alignment. This all-important connection between the Central Valley and Silicon Valley has been a "long time coming and this is a big milestone," said Boris Lipkin, Northern California Regional Director.
Image from Virgin Hyperloop.
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Reality Overtakes Hyperloop

By Roger Rudick | | No Comments
There really isn't anything in development that better serves markets such as Tokyo-Osaka, London-Paris, Boston-New York-Washington, Los Angeles-San Francisco, or dozens of other large city-pairs between 200 and 500 miles apart (and even better if there are smaller cities in-between). And the sooner naive politicians in California and the rest of the U.S. stop getting distracted by magic vac-trains, monorails, battery-powered HSR, and other vaporware alternatives, the better.
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