High-Speed Rail Conference Kicks off in San Jose
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Update on HSR dovetails with Global Climate Action Summit taking place in San Francisco this week
Recent Streetsblog SF posts about high-speed rail
Eyes Under the Street: A Tour of the Transbay Train Box
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This wraps up the first week of operations for the new Salesforce Transit Center, phase 1. Reviews are in, and most people seem to love the rooftop park and the grand design of the facility. But what about phase 2, the train station below it–and the thing that makes it the future Grand Central Station of […]
Majority of Californians Still Support HSR
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The majority of Californians still support the state's high-speed rail project, according to a new poll.
California’s Antique Trains
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Last week I took the train from Oakland to Bakersfield. In Bakersfield, I transferred to a bus to get to Los Angeles. Believe it or not, at eight hours, that’s the fastest Amtrak route between the two cities. While the state has spent the past sixty or seventy years building freeways, its intercity trains have […]