Yesterday’s San Francisco Chronicle had a particularly ridiculous anti-HSR op-ed by Alain Enthoven and William Grindley in which the California HSR project was accused of telling a false “story” to voters in November 2008. Unfortunately for them, their facts and interpretations are flawed, resulting in an op-ed that is not credible.
The system cost estimates have [...]

I’m back from Hawaii and just in time for this month’s California High Speed Rail Authority Board Meeting. Here’s the agenda and the live feed. Included is the reapproval of the Bay Area to Central Valley EIR, to reflect the changes ordered by the judge in the Atherton v. CHSRA case, and discussion of Alignment [...]

It’s becoming clear that Palo Alto, my hometown, is straddling two differing approaches to the high-speed rail project.
On one side, city officials and most residents appear to be coming, albeit slowly, to the realization that high-speed rail is happening, and that when it does, California won’t be paying for it to be in a deep [...]

Another open thread to keep you all busy. I’ll be back from Hawaii on Thursday and regular posting will resume then. There’s at least one guest post coming on the topic of recent meetings in Palo Alto, so look for that tomorrow.
Talk amongst yourselves!

Still in Hawaii – hope all is going well back in California. Use this as an open thread for whatever HSR-related issues are on your mind. Did anyone make it to the HSR event in Orange County that we mentioned in the Tuesday open thread?

The following post is a guest post from UC Riverside PhD student and blogger Justin Nelson. It appears that planning for HSR stations along the Los Angeles to San Diego Section is moving away from the Authority’s commitment to downtown stations in favor of greenfield sites (described below), or in the case of San Diego, at the [...]

I’m in Hawaii this week for a bit of rest and relaxation before the big push through to the November election. There’ll be more guest posts this week, including more from fellow Californians For High Speed Rail members.
Meanwhile, you should head over to the European Tribune to read DoDo’s latest post on Taiwan’s HSR system, [...]

by Rafael
Just a quick post to let you know I’ve added a Glossary page. The link is located just underneath the banner logo, in-between “Comments Policy” and “Log Out”. This will be updated every now and then, but I hope even this initial version will prove useful to any readers unfamiliar with the railroad terminology [...]

The idea of stopping high-speed rail (HSR) in San Jose and having HSR passengers transfer to Caltrain continues to be proposed by some along the Peninsula. Unfortunately, these people are not thinking through the implications for the Peninsula of this scenario. Aside from making it much more inconvenient for thousands of people HSR riders to [...]

Earlier this week we looked at the ways in which two right-wing gubernatorial candidates in the Midwest were using opposition to high speed rail in their campaigns. Which raises the question for us Californians, who are in the midst of a campaign to elect Arnold Schwarzenegger’s replacement, of how HSR is going to play in [...]