![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nibotDid anyone go to this?
What's the current status of this High Speed Rail Authority project?
-- quote --
Transportation: Does a bullet train for California make sense?
May 13, 12 p.m., Harris Room, 119 Moses Hall
In 1996, the California Legislature appointed the nine-member High-Speed Rail Authority to plan a train network for the state. With the proposed system, passengers would be able to travel via bullet train from the Bay Area to Los Angeles in just 2.5 hours. Other destinations for the high-speed rail network would include the Central Valley and San Diego. Traveling at speeds of 220 miles per hour, the trains would pose an alternative to intrastate airline service.
In spite of its $30 billion price tag, the project seems to make sense. A group of Boalt law students, however, has reviewed the Environmental Impact Report (EIR) and the Environmental Impact Study (EIS) released by the High-Speed Rail Authority and found the project’s viability more complicated than would seem at first glance. On Thursday, May 13, in a brown-bag lunch seminar at the Institute of Government Studies, the Boalt students will share their analysis.
-- end quote --
What's the current status of this High Speed Rail Authority project?
-- quote --
Transportation: Does a bullet train for California make sense?
May 13, 12 p.m., Harris Room, 119 Moses Hall
In 1996, the California Legislature appointed the nine-member High-Speed Rail Authority to plan a train network for the state. With the proposed system, passengers would be able to travel via bullet train from the Bay Area to Los Angeles in just 2.5 hours. Other destinations for the high-speed rail network would include the Central Valley and San Diego. Traveling at speeds of 220 miles per hour, the trains would pose an alternative to intrastate airline service.
In spite of its $30 billion price tag, the project seems to make sense. A group of Boalt law students, however, has reviewed the Environmental Impact Report (EIR) and the Environmental Impact Study (EIS) released by the High-Speed Rail Authority and found the project’s viability more complicated than would seem at first glance. On Thursday, May 13, in a brown-bag lunch seminar at the Institute of Government Studies, the Boalt students will share their analysis.
-- end quote --
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2004-05-13 03:33 pm (UTC)There was a very interesting article about it in the LA times a while back. It looks like they want you to buy the article. (http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/531992391.html?did=531992391&FMT=ABS&FMTS=FT&date=Jan+27%2C+2004&author=Kurt+Streeter&desc=The+State%3B+High-Speed+Train+Network+Would+Benefit+State%2C+Study+Says%3B+Congestion+would+be+significantly+reduced%2C+the+analysis+says.+But+the+%2437-billion+price+tag+may+be+out+of+reach+for+now.)
no subject
Date: 2004-05-18 09:15 pm (UTC)