Tag: california high speed rail

San Francisco Chronicle » San Francisco’s over-budget and oversize $2.4 billion Transbay Transit Center will open in December – but it’s going to cost an estimated $20 million a year to run the place, and no one knows where all the money will come from.
San Francisco Chronicle » Caltrain moved to keep its plan to electrify the Peninsula rail service alive Monday by extending the contracts of the contractors who would do the work for four months.
KALW Public Radio » We got one hint of where things could be headed last week, when the Trump administration delayed a decision on a 647 million dollar grant, throwing a major hurdle in front of Caltrain and California’s bullet train project.
The San Francisco Examiner » The San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved a $260 million bailout for the Transbay Transit Center. Phase 1 of the project began in 2008 and completion is expected by December 2017. This phase was originally estimated to cost $1.2 billion. However, the cost has increased to $2.26 billion because of numerous […]