California's High Speed Rail

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Additional Links

• California High-Speed Rail Authority

  The California High-Speed Rail Authority is charged with the planning, designing, constructing and operating a state of the art high-speed train system.

• The Association for California High-Speed Trains (ACHST)

  The Association for California High-Speed Trains (ACHST) seeks to educate and inform the public, business community, and government officials about the benefits of high-speed rail for all Californians.

• The Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society: Bullet Train Issue

  SCVAS supports mass transit for its obvious benefits of efficiency, energy savings and pollution reduction. The issue for SCVAS and other Bay Area environmental organizations is the selection of the northern corridor that will link the Central Valley to the Bay Area.

• San Jose Mercury News: South Bay eager to shape high-speed rail connecting Bay Area to Los Angeles

  Article Launched: 08/24/2007 The long-running debate over which route a high-speed bullet train system would take into the Bay Area is reaching a critical junction. After more than 10 years of planning and studies on the massive proposal, which envisions trains whizzing at 220 mph between Los Angeles and the Bay Area, the California High-Speed Rail Authority is holding a series of public hearings - including one in San Jose this afternoon - to tackle the question of where to lay the tracks.