Recent Streetsblog LA posts about High Speed Rail

CAHSR Blog, L.A. Times Paint Different Pictures of High Speed Rail Planning

By Damien Newton | Mar 1, 2010 | 30 Comments

A video promoting High Speed Rail by the California High Speed Rail Authority In addition to writing a charming piece on bus riding, the Times also published a piece that slammed the efforts to bring High Speed Rail to California. While Rich Connell and Dan Weikel didn’t come right out and say that pursuit of […]

LaHood Talks TIGERS and Stimulus, While Boxer Pledges Support for “30 in 10”

By Damien Newton | Feb 19, 2010 | 4 Comments

Barbara Boxer, flanked by Metro bus repair staff, Ray LaHood and Metro Board Chair Ara Najarian, promotes the Stimulus earlier today. Photo: LA Streetsblog/Flickr It was billed as a day to discuss the reauthorization of the Federal Transportation Trust Fund, it turned in to a stirring defense of the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, and […]

Rail Expert Reutter: CA and FL Deserve More HSR Funding

By Elana Schor | Feb 18, 2010 | 2 Comments

Mark Reutter, author of the industrial tome Making Steel and a veteran editor of Railroad History, can safely be called an expert on the train industry. And in a new memo for the Progressive Policy Institute, he is issuing a warning to the Obama administration on its high-profile push for high-speed rail. California’s high-speed rail […]

White House Economic Report Touts TIGER, High-Speed Rail, Transit

By Elana Schor | Feb 12, 2010 | No Comments

The White House Council of Economic Advisers’ first annual report under President Obama made headlines today for its gloomy job-creation outlook, but tucked inside its 462 pages is a tangible reflection of a changed outlook on transportation policy under the new administration. Top White House economic adviser Christina Romer, at right, holds up yesterday’s report. […]

US PIRG: How About High Speed Rail for Every Major City

By Elana Schor | Feb 9, 2010 | 15 Comments

(Image: U.S. PIRG) Now that the Obama administration has awarded $8 billion in high-speed rail grants to more than two dozen states, with $2.5 billion more coming soon, why not keep thinking big when it comes to bullet-train expansion? That’s the ethos of a new report released today by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group […]

Pols, Media, Celebrate High Speed Rail Grant for California

By Elana Schor | Jan 29, 2010 | 1 Comment

In California, the state’s bid for a federal high-speed rail network with top speeds exceeding 200 miles per hour is often called the "only true" bullet train proposal on the table — and the Obama administration agreed today, bestowing $2.34 billion on the Golden State to the delight of lawmakers and rail advocates. Graphic: CHSRC […]

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