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Amtrak Bakersfield California
601 Truxtun Avenue Bakersfield, CA 93301 - (call 1-800-USA-RAIL.)
The Bakersfield station, located at 601 Truxtun Avenue, is conveniently situated in downtown Bakersfield and within short walking distance of many restaurants, hotels, and the Rabobank Arena, Convention Center, and Theater. Also within walking distance are the McMurtrey Aquatic Center and the Bakersfield Ice Sports Center. |
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601 Truxtun Ave - (call (661) 395-3175)
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California High Speed Train Bakersfield
California High-Speed Rail Authority 925 L Street, Suite 1425 Sacramento, CA 95814 - (call (916) 324-1541 )
Established in 1996, the California High-Speed Rail Authority (Authority) is the state entity responsible for planning, constructing and operating an 800-mile-long high-speed train system serving California |
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Visiting Washington State by Train
Washington State is located on the Pacific north coast of the United State; it's bordered by British Columbia (Canada) in the North, by Idaho State on the East side, and by Oregon State in the South.
The state can be divided into 6 geographic land a [...] (Read Article)
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May 20 2012 - Editorial: Seek extension on bullet train project -- There are too many potential problems standing
The first phase of California's high-speed rail project is a risky venture in high-speed construction that faces many chances for derailment. Rather than trying to fast-track the project, the High Speed Rail Authority should ask the feds for a realistic extension. Unless the 130-mile section between Bakersfield and Fresno were completed by September 2017 federal funding could be jeopardized. |
May 11 2012 - Fatal crash closes railroad crossings
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) — The California Highway Patrol is investigating a train crash that killed a woman Wednesday morning in northwest Bakersfield. |
May 11 2012 - Train accident leaves one woman dead, traffic nightmare
An accident involving a train in Northwest Bakersfield Wednesday morning has left one woman dead and a traffic nightmare. The accident happened about 3:30 a.m. at Santa Fe Way and Hageman Road. California HigHway Patrol officers said the woman was driving southbound on the train tracks. When the train approached the conductor sounded the horn and tried to break. That's when officers said the ... |
April 24 2012 - Let's bring back the idea of a free UC education
Tuition increases are threatening to place a University of California education out of the reach of working-class and middle-class students. The son of a railroad worker, Earl Warren came from a family keeping a desperate finger hold on a working-class existence at the turn of the last century. Yet when he left high school in Bakersfield in 1908, there was no question where he was headed: to ... |
April 24 2012 - High speed rail’s new math: $30 billion less for a train to L.A.
The California High-Speed Rail Authority on Monday unveiled a new business plan slashing $30 billion from the price tag for connecting Anaheim and San Francisco.And retreating from a series of political missteps, the authority also vowed to connect its initial segment between Bakersfield and... |
April 04 2012 - New bullet train plan shaves $30B from cost
The California High-Speed Rail Authority unveiled a new business plan yesterday slashing $30 billion from the price tag for connecting Anaheim and San Francisco. And retreating from a series of political missteps, the authority also vowed to connect its initial segment between Bakersfield and Fresno – the so-called “Train to Nowhere” – to the San Fernando Valley within the decade. Just five ... |
January 12 2012 - High-speed rail will travel through Antelope Valley, not Grapevine
LOS ANGELES - The California High Speed Rail Authority board announced today that a Los Angeles-to-San Francisco high-speed train would run north to Bakersfield through the Antelope Valley cities of Palmdale and Lancaster, and not along an alternate proposed route near the Grapevine. |
January 12 2012 - High-speed rail will stop in Lancaster, Palmdale, not Grapevine
LOS ANGELES -- The California High Speed Rail Authority board announced today that a Los Angeles-to-San Francisco high-speed train would run north to Bakersfield through the Antelope Valley cities of Palmdale and Lancaster, and not along an alternate proposed route near the Grapevine. |
January 10 2012 - Planners want to discard Grapevine route for rail project
Though it was ruled out in 2005, the more direct Interstate 5-Grapevine corridor was revived for further study last May. But a new study by the California High Speed Rail Authority now indicates that the longer route through Palmdale and Lancaster is the better option. Planners of California's high-speed rail project want to discard a more direct route from Los Angeles to Bakersfield over the ... |
December 14 2011 - Bakersfield's city manager opposes high-speed rail
The Bakersfield City Council is set to meet Wednesday night, and on the agenda once again is high-speed rail . City manager Alan Tandy is encouraging the Council to adopt a proposal opposing some or all of the project. |
December 12 2011 - Bakersfield council to consider resolution to oppose bullet train
Tthe second largest city of the Central Valley, Bakersfield, is preparing to take a tough stand against the California bullet train, the $98.5 billion project that is intended to provide the city with improved transportation to Los Angeles, San Francisco and cities along the routes. |
November 02 2011 - Cost of high-speed rail doubles to $98 billion
Editor's Note: The story below was written by David Siders of The Sacramento Bee. We are posting it here as part of partnership between The Bee, California Watch, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Bakersfield Californian, The Register and other regional California news organizations... |
November 02 2011 - A Q&A related to Calif. high-speed rail plan
The Associated Press — How will the project be funded? The initial, $5.2 billion phase of the rail line, to run between Fresno and Bakersfield, would be funded through federal stimulus money and the sale of bonds Californians authorized at the ballot in 2008. The rest of the financing is contingent on state, federal and local money, public-private partnerships, private investment and by ... |
October 23 2011 - More Headaches for California's High-Speed Rail Project
The financing of the bullet train from LA to the Bay Area is already threatened by Republicans in Congress. Now the route itself is under fire. One building standing in the way of the proposed high-speed rail line is Bakersfield High School. That's the same public school to which House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, a Republican and critic of the rail project, sends his kids. The Los Angeles ... |
October 22 2011 - California bullet train: The high price of speed
Its proposed route would destroy churches, schools, homes, warehouses, banks, medical offices, stores and much more. Since it opened in 1893, Bakersfield High School has been the pride of this city and its academic cornerstone, the place where the late chief justice Earl Warren graduated and students call themselves the Drillers in homage to the region's oil patch. |
October 19 2011 - Public complains comment period for high-speed rail was inadequate
The public comment period just ended for the proposed High Speed Rail project, but some say their comments were ignored. Residents in the possible path of the new line are not happy, and Bakersfield City officials also have complaints about the process. |
October 13 2011 - Amtrak Trains Collide In Oakland
When two Amtrak trains collided inside a rail station in Oakland, Calif., 18 people suffered minor injuries, rail officials said. Amtrak said the low-speed collision between Amtrak's San Joaquin, which runs from Bakersfield, Calif., to Oakland, and the Coast Starlight, which runs from Los Angeles to Seattle, occurred at about 10 p.m. PDT Wednesday inside Oakland Station. The collision derailed ... |
October 13 2011 - Calif. to re-introduce alternate high-speed rail route
The California High-Speed Rail Authority will issue a revised environmental report for the Fresno-to-Bakersfield section of the high-speed train project to re-introduce an alternative route and station location. |
October 07 2011 - Calif. high-speed authority to issue revised EIR/EIS
The California High-Speed Rail Authority announced it will issue a Revised Draft Environmental Impact Report (EIR)/Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Fresno-to-Bakersfield section of the high-speed train project. |
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