Recent Streetsblog CALIFORNIA posts about CA High-Speed Rail Authority (CAHSRA)

California High-Speed Rail's San Joaquin River Viaduct under construction - photo from CAHSRA

In Their Own Words: Rendon and Friedman’s Changing Rationales For Kneecapping CA High-Speed Rail

By Joe Linton | Sep 8, 2021 | No Comments

None of this will come as a surprise to readers following CA High-Speed Rail closely, but this perhaps serves to dispel a few of the myths and falsehoods that obscure rail realities today.

Sacramento's new Complete Streets policy will guide its implementation of projects like these. Photo: Melanie Curry/Streetsblog

High-Speed Rail Impasse Means No Active Transportation Boost, Other Projects Also Denied Funding

By Melanie Curry | Sep 7, 2021 | No Comments

$500 million proposed as a one-time augmentation for Active Transportation Projects will go back to the General Fund - as will a total of $3.3 billion in other proposed allocations including for LA Olympics projects

Joe Biden and former Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood talk about high speed rail expansion while traveling from Washington, DC to Philadelphia, PA an Amtrak Acela train, Feb. 8, 2011. (Official White House Photo by David Lienemann)

Finish the Bullet Train, Say Past Transportation Secretaries

By Roger Rudick | Aug 24, 2021 | No Comments

Former Republican and Democratic transportation leaders agree: California and the rest of the U.S. needs high-speed rail

High-speed rail train rendering - via CAHSRA

CA High-Speed Rail Authority Approves Plan for Connection into L.A. County

By Joe Linton | Aug 20, 2021 | No Comments

Bakersfield to Palmdale EIR approved, readying the section to catch potential infrastructure funding

High-speed Rail construction of the Cedar Viaduct in Fresno County. Photo: CAHSRA

‘Amtrak Joe’ Wants Electric Bullet Trains for California

By Roger Rudick | Aug 12, 2021 | No Comments

California's electrified, high-speed train project gets closer to reality with billions in federal dollars on the way

Amtrak's newest Acela. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

L.A. Times Needs to Stop High Speed Gaslighting

By Damien Newton and Roger Rudick | Jul 26, 2021 | No Comments

Once again, the L.A. Times's most irresponsible reporter repeats battery train blather

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