Monday, September 8, 2014

XpressWest to Update Palmdale City Council (Tues, Sept 18) 9am

All,

The XpressWest project will be updating the Palmdale City Council Chambers this Tuesday, September 18 at 9:00am.

Other projects that may update the chambers as well are the CA-HSR, the East-West 220 freeway corridor project, Metrolink, etc... and possible discussion of the new proposed route for CAHSR through the mountains to the proposed Burbank airport station.

Please consider that either XpressWest and/or CAHSR will bring lots of changes to the area.  Some good and some not so good.  We encourage all of the readers to attend.

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Friday, February 14, 2014

San Bernardino County E-220 page updated with Meeting minutes Jan 2014

All,

If you are following the E-220 (High Desert Corridor) movement, then you will want to check the sbcounty.gov webpages as they have been updated with various minutes notes from the last meeting in January 2014.

http://www.sbcounty.gov/dpw/transportation/high_desert_corridor.asp

Scroll down to meeting materials Item 3 (big discussion about Express West) in the meeting notes.

Scroll down further to to meeting materials Item 7 (Letter to CAHSR about the PTC) Palmdale Transportation Center.  (Hosting CAHSR, XpressWest, Metrolink, etc)

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CalTrans hosting Live High Desert Corridor (E-220) Webinar Feb 26

All,CalTrans has posted that they will be hosting a Live High Desert Corridor (E-220) webinar on Feb, 26 @ 19:00 (pst).


The HDC (E-220) study is currently considering an approximately 63-mile long, east-west multipurpose transportation corridor, between State Route 14 in Los Angeles County and State Route 18 in San Bernardino County. The HDC could include the following: freeway/expressway, toll lanes and/or a high-speed rail connection, green energy production and transmission and a bikeway. The proposed project aims to improve mobility and access for people and goods in the Antelope, Victor Valley areas of Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties.

Keeping in mind that Palmdale is preparing itself for is the "PALMDALE TRANSPORTATION CENTER" one station to receive CAHSR, XpressWest, Metrolink, etc...

Heres the link to the Webinar where participants will be able to ask questions live.https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4621315897213406209



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Tuesday, October 15, 2013

CAL-TRANS updates E-220 High Desert Corridor Page

All,

It appears that Cal-Trans has quietly updated its page for the High Desert Project with a few new links to some high quality links.  (be fore-warned that these are LARGE Files).

http://www.dot.ca.gov/dist07/travel/projects/details.php?id=11

These links cover everything from multiple options for the Palmdale inter-change, including the "proposed but lacking money" XpressWest connections to the CA-HSR system, and the entire route of the E-220 route that the XpressWest will follow in the median to Victorville.

It also shows where the Freeway will run and "split" the Victorville State Run Prison with the Right Of Way down the middle of the street.  But, as you can see there is a possible variation to route to the South of the prison.  And how close the E-220 will border the SCLA project as well.



You can also find the Power point presentations for the updated variations here:
http://www.dot.ca.gov/dist07/sync/cpimages/file/SR-138%20Presentation%2002272012.pdf


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Tuesday, August 6, 2013

UPDATE COMING SOON.

All,

Unfortunately there has been some issues that we have been looking into and preparing to make changes to the web site.

As of today we would like to ask our readers for patience while we try to rid the site of spammers and spoofers.  Please be very careful with any of our links.  It would be best habit for the next month or two, to copy and paste any link into your search engine of choice and then go to the link through the search site.  Unfortunately this is why we havent been posting photos within our pages.

Here is what we will be covering soon.


  • Tenerife project may be closer to an actual project.
  • Desert Xpress / Xpress West project federal funds halted.
  • PRIMM, Nv. Solar project nearing start-up.
  • ARTIC project status.
For additional maglev information please search for the magnetbahn forum.de site that has more information as well on any maglev project.


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Thursday, May 2, 2013

ARTIC (anaheim station) GONE VERTICAL!!!!!!

All,

If you havent been to the buildartic.com/photos website lately, the project has gone vertical in a big way... building part of the first and second floors.


Enjoy!

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Thursday, April 25, 2013

Monsters University Latest Skin for DisneyWorld Monorails

All,

Walt Disney World is currently keeping its newest tradition active with "skinning" another monorail with it's latest movie release promotion.  Monorail Teal has been wrapped with advertisements for Monsters University.

http://www.cfnews13.com/content/news/cfnews13/news/article.html/content/news/articles/cfn/2013/4/24/disney_world_rolls_o.html?cid=rss&utm_source=feedly

Check out the photos..




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