Recent Streetsblog CALIFORNIA posts about Rail

Aim Very Low: LADOT Releases New Strategic Plan Update

By Joe Linton | Mar 2, 2021 | No Comments

By setting their sights so low in the new Strategic Plan, Mayor Eric Garcetti and LADOT GM Seleta Reynolds have jointly raised a white flag of surrender to the forces of motordom.

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Updates from the February 2021 Metro Board Meeting

By Joe Linton | Feb 26, 2021 | No Comments

Transit policing budget, restoring transit service, fareless transit initiative, Sepulveda Transit Corridor, 5 Freeway cost overruns, and Boyle Heights joint development

A rendering of HSR in Corcoran. Image: CAHSRA

Petition to Keep High Speed Rail on Track

By Roger Rudick | Feb 25, 2021 | No Comments

Advocates want state to move forward with funding California's rail modernization project

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Priorities All Wrong: Metro Proposes Delaying Service Restoration While Increasing Money for Policing

By Joe Linton | Feb 23, 2021 | No Comments

Many on the Metro board and in the public are scratching their heads on Metro doubling down on discriminatory practices at a moment when they had pledged to address the agency's historic role in perpetuating that kind of harm.

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Amtrak Is Ready to Grow. Will it Finally Get the Subsidy It Deserves?

By Kea Wilson | Feb 22, 2021 | No Comments

Amtrak wants intercity rail take its rightful place as an essential component of our public transportation ecosystem, rather than quasi-private afterthought.

National Bill Would Bring Billions for Bullet Train

By Roger Rudick | Feb 18, 2021 | No Comments

The financial pathway for completing the entire Los Angeles/San Francisco route clarified with legislation from Fresno's Jim Costa

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