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Talking Headways Podcast: Wonders of the South Bay
VTA's Sam Sargent on the past, present and future of transit in the South Bay.
September 4, 2025
High Speed Rail by 2032?: CHSRA Plans for Future as Feds Pull More Money from Project
High-speed rail in the Central Valley by 2032, to the Bay by 2038, and to L.A. by...sometime...
August 26, 2025
Commentary: Remember the Last Time Trump Tried to Stop the Train?
A reminder that we've seen Trump's anti-rail playbook before. The train won.
February 26, 2025
CA Envisions a Zero-Emission, Connected Rail Network by 2050
And this time the CA State Rail Plan's vision for an electrified, connected network doesn't dismiss catenary wire out of hand.
January 7, 2025
Do Caltrain’s New Trains Have Enough Bike Space?
If a recent ride on a rush hour train of 'electric multiple units' is any indication, the answer to that is a big fat 'no.'
August 23, 2024
California Needs Leadership on Electric Rail
California leaders cannot continue giving equal weight to a proven technology that will improve rail service (catenary electric trains) and a wasteful experimental technology (hydrogen trains) that could lead to worse service and reliability than the status quo.
July 6, 2023
