Recent Streetsblog LA posts about High Speed Rail

What Just May Drive High Speed Rail to Reality

By Dana Gabbard | Sep 17, 2010 | 14 Comments

About 10 years ago I attended a meeting of local activists held at the Southern California Association of Governments to hear a presentation about the proposed high speed rail network. This was back when few people were aware such an effort was underway. Attendance was heavily grassroots and environmentally oriented. Few present had knowledge of […]

High Speed Rail Supporters State Their Case at Union Station and Beyond

By Damien Newton | Jun 30, 2010 | 9 Comments

Flanked by City Council Members from Santa Monica and Los Angeles, as well as dozens of people waving signs proclaiming "fast trains are cool," CalPirg Transportation Advocate Erin Steva rallied supporters in front of Union Station for increased funding of the state’s planned High Speed Rail Network. While some "fast train" advocates were questioning the […]

Passenger Rail Symposium, Day 1: Hooray for High Speed Rail

By Drew Reed | May 27, 2010 | 7 Comments

(Drew Reed is usually our volunteer Long Beach writer. However, he volunteered to cover the CTA’s rail transportation symposium in Long Beach that took place Monday and Tuesday. Here is a review of Monday’s coverage. Tuesday’s will come tomorrow. With the exception of the above graphic, all images are by Drew Reed.) Last Monday afternoon, […]

State DOT Official, Rail Exec Talk High-Speed Rail Infighting, Bureaucracy

By Elana Schor | May 12, 2010 | No Comments

The push for dedicated U.S. high-speed rail funding began anew yesterday with the launch of a campaign aimed at securing $4 billion from Congress for next year’s projects — but hours before that event, federal and state transport officials joined private-sector players for a discussion that highlighted the political challenges facing successful development of fast […]

High-Speed Rail Lobbying Campaign Revives the “$4B” Rallying Cry

By Elana Schor | May 11, 2010 | No Comments

The lobbying coalition that helped prod Congress into approving $2.5 billion for high-speed rail last year — twice as much as the Senate had originally set aside — today kicked off a new campaign urging lawmakers to approve $4 billion for bullet trains next year and $2.6 billion for Amtrak. (Photo: TreeHugger) At an event […]

Expectations for High-Speed Rail Coming Down to Earth

By Elana Schor | May 5, 2010 | No Comments

Three months after the Obama administration announced the first winners of what it hopes will be the first of many federal grants to build U.S. high-speed rail networks, advocates and planners are settling in for a long battle to surmount the obstacles and unknowns that stand in the way of long-term bullet train development. If […]

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