The U.S. Department of Transportation posted this map on the agency’s blog to describe the grants awarded last week to high-speed rail projects around the country by President Obama. California received $2.25 billion for its planned $43-billion high-speed rail line between Anaheim and San Francisco. The blog also has the [continue reading]
The big news on Thursday was the $2.25 billion federal grant to California to help build a planned $43-billion high-speed rail line between Anaheim and San Francisco. I thought this quote from State Sen. Alan Lowenthal (who represents the Long Beach area) in the L.A. Times hit the nail on [continue reading]
A few more notes on the announcement by President Obama today that California will receive $2.25 billion in federal funds for a high-speed rail line between Anaheim and San Francisco: *The state of California had applied for $4.7 billion in funds to help build four segments of the line, including [continue reading]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yoqo1xSiBSc[/youtube] As of 10:30 p.m. Wednesday, three major media outlets — Bloomberg News, the Wall Street Journal and the San Jose Mercury News — were reporting that the Obama Administration will provide about $2.3 billion to California’s effort to build a high-speed rail line between San Francisco and Anaheim. Obama [continue reading]
Could the Los Angeles-to-Anaheim segment of the high-speed rail route between Anaheim and San Francisco receive some federal funding this week? Money to build high-speed infrastructure seems a possibility, according to media reports and this nugget that Metro CEO Art Leahy included in his daily email to staff yesterday: President [continue reading]
I had the chance to listen to a conference call on Wednesday that was organized by the American Public Transportation Assn. (APTA), a Washington D.C.-based group that promotes – as the name implies – mass transit. The group has also set up a website on high-speed rail efforts. The purpose [continue reading]
Did you know that Spain already has more than 1,200 miles of high-speed rail? And that by 2020 it wants to have more than 6,200 miles of high-speed rail — so that every resident lives within 30 miles of a high-speed rail station? PBS takes a look at a high-speed [continue reading]
A study by DePaul University found that people are so in love with their wi-fi that they can be lured into taking the bus if they know that means they can surf the internet during said bus trip, so says the Chicago Sun Times. In case you missed the recent [continue reading]
Let’s start the holiday week in Sin City — where else? — with a fun story by Metropolis Magazine taking a critical look at the monorail that is supposed to serve the Las Vegas Strip but is mostly out-of-view and slow. The author’s conclusion: if you’re trying to get around [continue reading]
I was in Boston about six weeks ago for the 2009 Rail~Volution Conference. The conference focuses on a wide range of topics related to “building livable communities with transit.” I was there as a panelist for the session on “New Media, New Tools” talking about my role in utilizing social [continue reading]
