PALMDALE – A community open house will be held in Palmdale this Tuesday to update the public on the progress of the high-speed rail program in the Palmdale to Burbank Project Section.
Presented by the California High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA), the community open house is scheduled for Tuesday, June 2, from 5 to 8 p.m., at the Chimbole Cultural Center, 38350 Sierra Highway in Palmdale.
CHSRA representatives will be sharing with residents the four conceptual alignment alternatives that travel between the Palmdale Transportation Center and Burbank Airport Station, according to Public Information Officer Adeline Yee.
“These conceptual alignments are based on continued community and regulatory agencies feedback and will continue to evolve,” Yee stated. “Two alignment corridors are under consideration: the SR 14 Corridor, which includes one alignment alternative with two options, and the East Corridor, which includes three alignment alternatives with six options. These alignment alternatives include tunneling, at-grade and elevated options.”
The conceptual alignments and other refinements made within the Palmdale to Burbank Project Section will be released in a Draft Supplemental Alternatives Analysis (SAA) Report to the Authority Board of Directors at a June 9 Board meeting in Los Angeles, according to Yee.
Tuesday’s community open house in Palmdale is one of nine community open house meetings scheduled by CHSRA between May 16 and June 6. The last in this series of community meetings will take place from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday, June 6, at High Desert School, located at 3620 Antelope Woods Road in Acton. View a flyer for the meetings here.
For more information, call 800-630-1039, email palmdale_burbank@hsr.ca.gov or visit www.hsr.ca.gov.
Since May of 2014, the Authority has hosted 165 outreach events for the public, elected officials and staff and stakeholder organizations. This outreach process included five public meetings in May/June in 2014, seven public scoping meetings in August 2014, seven open house meetings in December 2014 and 17 Community Working Group meetings between February and April 2015.
The California High-Speed Rail Authority is responsible for the planning, designing, building and operation of the first high-speed rail system in the nation. By 2029, the system will run from San Francisco to the Los Angeles basin in under three hours at speeds capable of over 200 miles per hour. The system will eventually extend to Sacramento and San Diego, totaling 800 miles with up to 24 stations. In addition, the Authority is working with regional partners to implement a state-wide rail modernization plan that will invest billions of dollars in local and regional rail lines to meet the state’s 21st century transportation needs.
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Mr Stepford says
Does anyone else feel the artist rendering of the desert being clean and full of native brush is a tad over the top? The solar fields and lack of chain gangs make this illusion another marketing gimmick! Still think the train is needed! Those in Fresno are complaining about space in their field…NEXT TO THE EXISTING TRACKS….will inevitably be absorbed and they will lose money.
LMFAO
THAT LAND IS TRASH! Worked it with the pickers as a foreman for six years! Don’t be fooled folks!
jose says
Yes please built HSR. As a commuter to LAX. I can travel to L.A. AND CATCH FLYAWAY BUS in about an hour. Which means I can sleep ,read. Or just relax
Jason Zink says
Think Bigger in Scope H.S.R. People and Leaders. They should build a tunnel for passengers and one for containers to relieve truck traffic on LA Freeways coming from the Port’s of LA. It will pay for the passenger rail, clean up the air and relieve congestion! Inland ports in AV and Bakersfield. That’s how you make money and boost our economy.
Turd Ferguson says
Think big.Think big.Like with LEAPS.Like with LEAPS.Big money for nothing.Big money for nothing.$90,000.00 a month for what.$90,000.00 a month for what.To catch Wal-Mart shoplifters.To catch Wal-Mart shoplifters.We are paying for this piece of crap for ten years.We are paying for this piece of crap for ten years.That is $10,800,000.00.That is $10,800,000.00.To make Rexs friends rich.To make Rexs friends rich.Palmdale gets H.S.R. and we get LEAPS.Palmdale get H.S.R. and we get LEAPS.Why do we get stuck with LEAPS?Why do we get stuck with LEAPS?No to LEAPS.No to LEAPS.Yes to Sherriffs.Yes to Sherriffs.Yes to H.S.R.Yes to H.S.R.More boots on the ground.More boots on the ground.No to LEAPS.No to LEAPS.
JusSayIn says
Tunnels on San Andreas fault? That idea just scares me. I’m just saying.
William says
@JusSayIn
The BART tube under San Francisco Bay withstood the Loma Prieta earthquake while the Bay Bridge collapsed.
moll flanders says
I will be there.
Marie says
Our aging population means ever more old people will be poking along the ever more crowded roadways unless we provide GOOD alternatives to car travel.
Projects such as high speed rail certainly paid off for Japan and European countries. Their citizens move about much more freely than ours. Can you imagine life in the U.S. had we not invested in our expensive interstate highway system in the 1950s? We need should spend money more wisely than squandering it on decades-long drug sentences. Let’s spend some on infrastructure and projects like high speed rail that benefit society and provide work that lowers the unemployment rate.
I am unable to attend the Tuesday meeting, but I hope many of you in favor of common sense high speed rail will be there.
William says
@Mark
I plan on going and have been to 3 so far.
I lived in the East Bay in the 60s while the BART system was being planned and built. The tube under San Francisco Bay held up when the Bay Bridge collapsed from the Loma Prieta earthquake.
My uncle used to to commute from Moraga near Walnut Creek to San Francisco on BART because the traffic was so heavy on the Bay Bridge.
I was talking to somone last week who said they could fly to San Francisco in 45 minutes, ignoring the time spent going to Burbank or LAX and transit time at the other end from SFO to San Francisco.
By the time the HSR is up and running the traffic will be even worse in the LA area. There has to be an alternate way.