Leaving no doubt as to where he stands on high speed rail (he hateses it!) Palo Alto Vice Mayor Jack Morton, who misrepresented reality to the Senate Budget Subcommittee last week in Sacramento is now demanding that the CHSRA be ...

Despite an above-grade solution being safer than the existing rail solution, some claimed that it would make their communities "ugly" - a few even took to labeling it a "Berlin Wall" (which is odd because the CHSRA wasn't planning to ...

Despite an above-grade solution being safer than the existing rail solution, some claimed that it would make their communities "ugly" - a few even took to labeling it a "Berlin Wall" (which is odd because the CHSRA wasn't planning to ...

by Robert Cruickshank

Leaving no doubt as to where he stands on high speed rail (he hateses it!) Palo Alto Vice Mayor Jack Morton, who misrepresented reality to the Senate Budget Subcommittee last week in Sacramento is now demanding that the CHSRA be abolished:

The California High Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) expects to raise about one-third of the capital cost of this very ambitious project from private investors. Anyone interested in considering such an investment should go to the Reason ...

Vice Mayor Jack Morton of Palo Alto caught City Council colleagues by surprise with a suggestion Monday night that perhaps California's High Speed Rail Authority ought to be dissolved. He said the $40 billion rail project could be turned over to some other entity with staff that has experience handling large planning/construction projects -- even Caltrain. by Jay Thorwaldson

While there has been a lot of debate about the route CHSRA prefers and the throughput issues of San Francisco's new Transbay Terminal Center, the issue of maintenance and overnight storage of high speed trains has not received as much ...

There are serious problems with the CHSRA that high speed rail supporters ought to be gravely concerned about, and I don't think they should be summarily dismissed as NIMBY fabrications. May 3, 2009 12:03 PM; Anonymous said. ...

by Robert Cruickshank

by Robert Cruickshank

One of the, shall we say, "interesting" features of the Draft EIS for the DesertXpress HSR project is a lack of a station in Barstow. As revealed at Wednesday night's scoping meeting in Barstow, this has locals rather upset: