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Stop California High Speed Rail – Emergency Meeting

Join the fight to keep High Speed Rail away from Santa Clarita! Let your voice be heard at an emergency meeting held April 27 at 7 PM at the Canyon high School Gymnasium.

The California High Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) Project is a high speed rail system approved by voters in 2008. The estimated $68 billion project will connect from San Francisco to Los Angeles at speeds up to 200 miles an hour.

In 2012, the CHSRA Board of Directors designated two alignments through Santa Clarita. In 2014, the CHSRA Board, in response to a request from the City Council, refined the alignments to eliminate one of the two proposed surface alignments and include an extension of the tunnel under neighborhoods in eastern Santa Clarita.

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Stop California High Speed Rail – Emergency Meeting

10 comments

  1. We need high-speed rail! Granted, this project isn’t perfect, but the expected growth in population in CA cannot be serviced by freeways and airports. And high-speed rail is, at least potentially, way less carbon-polluting than driving or flying. What’s the problem?

  2. It’s interesting to me that these alignments were chosen in 2012 but Santa Clarita has waited to 2015 to plan an emergency meeting over the matter. Seems like they didn’t actually expect HSR to make it as far as they have. So now that momentum on the project is finally picking up for the good of all Californians, you affluent folk in your pretty hillside communities are throwing a fit that your kids may have to go to a new school that will likely be built yards away from the current one, with construction fully funded and overseen by the State with the newest and latest architectural and technological amenities. Shame on Santa Clarita. News flash; your homes and communities were pristine virgin landscapes 10 years ago but now that something that will benefit 40 million people for generations to come is scraping the geographical limits of your city you won’t have it. If Santa Claritans are to stand in the way of 21st century progress, then you have no rights to other infrastructure that has displaced hundreds of thousands of people over the decades. If you are to enjoy the benefits of modern freeways, bridges and airports, you have no right to stand in the progress of California High Speed Rail.

    • I agree. If all projects that benefited the public were never created, freeways that we all use, malls, roads and airports would have never been built. Its called progress.

  3. California need HSN there no room to do any more work on the freeway and interstate, there has been lots of accidents involves daily Commuters and truck drivers on the highways in California. The HSR will reduce tension on truckers and other motorists

  4. “China already possesses the largest high-speed rail network in the world (12,183 kilometers), almost four times the length of Spain’s network, the world’s second-largest. Under current plans, Beijing intends to connect all cities with populations over 500,000 with a rail network capable of operating at speeds of over 160 kilometers per hour by the end of this year.”

  5. High speed rail will do absolutely nothingto ease traffic congestion within the city and there is not very many people that commute to the bay area to work to make it worth building this whole project shpuld be scrapped. Eliminate the carpool lanes too it doesnt work here if you want to ne like european countries then go there this is not europe quit trying to make it like that we left europe for a reason

  6. I agree. If all projects that benefited the public were never created, freeways that we all use, malls, roads and airports would have never been built. Its called progress.

    We are a country of complainers and whiners if it directly does not benefit us. We are ok to use services and invest in projects as long it impacts others. We are a country of a ton of red tape therefore we are always last as a country on projects such as this.

  7. Mark, Jimmy, Leo, Richard, You know who,

    I can only assume that none of you live in Santa Clarita and you have no Idea as to the position of the city officials or the community at large about the High Speed Rail. You are also misinformed as to the facts about the High Speed Rail as it travels from Burbank To Palmdale.

    I urge each of you and everyone else to come to the meeting tonight at Canyon High and learn about the High Speed Rail and the goals of the City and the residents of Santa Clarita.

    • Informed Resident:

      The message you sent at that meeting couldn’t have been any clearer:

      You don’t want high-speed rail anywhere near your town.

      You heard em California, let’s start planning a tunnel miles under their town (that they’ll probably hate too).

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