Category Archives: High-Speed Rail

AB 3034 Passes Senate Transportation and Housing Committee

2 July 2008 – 11:55 pm

AB 3034 passes Senate Transportation and Housing Committee. Erik Nelson from the Oakland Tribune reported that the Cathleen Galgiani’s high speed rail bill AB 3034 was approved 8-4 in the Senate Transportation and Housing Committee; meanwhile, a few days ago, Debra Bowen assigned the prime-time position of Proposition 1 to the $9.95 billion HSR bond [...]

By Eric | Also posted in Asides, California | Comments (0)

High Speed Rail Interactive Map

15 May 2008 – 12:45 am

High Speed Rail Interactive Map. One major hurdle to overcome when communicating to voters about the importance of the California High Speed Rail project is lack of familiarity. Unless you are talking to someone who has visited a foreign country and actually ridden a high-speed train, or perhaps to a train geek, it is entirely [...]

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Altamont Bypassed

11 January 2008 – 8:07 pm

This is a post I started to write a few weeks ago. Unfortunately, a couple weeks of illness and the general pandemonium of the holidays prevented me from finishing it in a timely fashion, but better late than never, right? Somehow, this blog has been running for a few months now, with barely a single [...]

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Paris to London in Two Hours

13 September 2007 – 8:50 am

Well, not exactly two hours, but pretty darn close. Last week, on September 4, a Eurostar train zipped from Gare du Nord station in Paris, sped underneath the English Channel, and finally ended at St. Pancras in London — a 306 mile-long route — in just 2 hours, 3 minutes, and 39 seconds, drawing these [...]

By Eric | Also posted in Beyond the Bay | Comments (2)