Month: February 2006

  • Capitol Corridor JPA Board Meeting Report

    Sacramento City Hall — Reported by Russ Jackson CCJPB Officials Visit The UP HQ In Omaha Expansion To 32 Daily Trains In August RailPAC Urges Passage Of Legislation For More Rail Funds Good News For Oakland To San Jose Riders CCJPB’S Gene Skorpowski Writes To Riders About ‘On Time’ Eastbound Capitol train 724 has just…

  • Transportation Agency of Monterey County

    Reported by Chris Flescher, Associate Director, RailPAC — The status of the service to the Monterey Peninsula is that there still might be 2 trains a day running in 2009. The project is under environmental review and TAMC is examining alternatives. TAMC will be applying for FTA new starts money soon. Earlier that day (Feb…

  • Transportation Agency of Monterey County

    Reported by Chris Flescher, Associate Director, RailPAC — One very important thing is that the UP railroad has approved the proposed station track layouts for Pajaro, Castroville, and Salinas. There is a water company that people call Cal Am. I think the full name is something like California American Water. They are proposing a desalination…

  • The Best and Worst of Times

    By RailPAC Editor Noel T. Braymer — RailPAC’s annual meeting this January 28th highlighted the great progress we have had, and can look forward to in California. Along with this we have problems that never seem to go away which we must still fight. Since 1990 there have been no major sources of new funding…