SoCal Helps Shape High-Speed Rail Planning

LOS ANGELES-As momentum continues to build on the nation’s largest infrastructure project, the California High-Speed Rail Authority Board is moving ahead with studying a range of alternatives on everything from track alignments to station designs to ensure that California’s high-speed rail system is ultimately the best one possible. Known as “alternatives analysis,” the process has produced reports today that reflect feedback from nearly 800 meetings with residents, community leaders, local officials and more.

More than two years ago, the Authority Board made the alternatives analysis process a public one, to gather maximum community input prior to the draft environmental impact reports. The alternatives analysis reports analyze potential track alignments, track designs and possible station locations to determine which options call for further study and which options raise too many impacts, environmental concerns or are otherwise too unfeasible to continue considering.