Recent Streetsblog SF posts about high-speed rail

Skip Sowko, Senior Design & Engineering Manager, showed Streetsblog around the huge 'train box' under the new Transit Center. All photos Streetsblog/Rudick unless indicated

Eyes Under the Street: A Tour of the Transbay Train Box

By Roger Rudick | Aug 17, 2018 | 11 Comments

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 […]

A Eurostar high-speed train in England. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

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Majority of Californians Still Support HSR

By Roger Rudick | Mar 26, 2018 | 114 Comments

The majority of Californians still support the state's high-speed rail project, according to a new poll.

My New Jersey Transit train from Oakland to Bakersfield. Photo: Rudick/Streetsblog

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California’s Antique Trains

By Roger Rudick | Aug 21, 2017 | 78 Comments

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 […]