{"id":435536,"date":"2010-03-16T13:44:51","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T17:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef01310fa9f449970c"},"modified":"2010-03-16T14:06:37","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T18:06:37","slug":"burbank-pushing-for-high-speed-rail-stop-at-bob-hope-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/435536","title":{"rendered":"Burbank pushing for high-speed rail stop at Bob Hope Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"http:\/\/www.burbankleader.com\/content\/articles\/2009\/11\/03\/news\/blr-curfew110409.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.burbankleader.com\/content\/articles\/2009\/11\/03\/news\/blr-curfew110409.jpg\" style=\"float: left; margin: 7px; width: 241px; height: 154px;\" title=\"http:\/\/www.burbankleader.com\/content\/articles\/2009\/11\/03\/news\/blr-curfew110409.jpg\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/bottleneck\/images\/2008\/08\/11\/highspeedrailmap.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/bottleneck\/images\/2008\/08\/11\/highspeedrailmap.jpg\" style=\"float: right; margin: 6px; width: 341px; height: 386px;\" title=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/bottleneck\/images\/2008\/08\/11\/highspeedrailmap.jpg\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p>Officials in Burbank are pushing the developers of a high-speed rail line to add a stop at Bob Hope Airport.<\/p>\n<p>City officials have proposed the stop be located near the intersection of Hollywood Way and San Fernando Road.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives of the California High-Speed Rail Authority had planned to present two station alternatives to their board of directors as soon as May 6 in San Jose. But the Burbank City Council last week called on the representatives to consider as part of their environmental study a stop near Bob Hope Airport, arguing that a proposed $120-million regional transportation center there should not be isolated from high-speed trains.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we should be as strong as possible to let them know that if they don\u2019t include a link to the airport, that they\u2019re going to have an enemy in us, and that we would find that unacceptable,\u201d Councilman Dave Golonski told the Glendale News-Press.<\/p>\n<p>A subcommittee of the council has scheduled a meeting this week with airport and rail officials before the board meets to weigh the benefits and drawbacks of studying a third station option, said principal city planner David Kriske.<\/p>\n<p>Vice Mayor Anja Reinke contended that examples of regional transportation hubs connecting airports to trains, buses and rental cars are readily available throughout the world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glendalenewspress.com\/articles\/2010\/03\/16\/politics\/gnp-stations031610.txt\">Read the full story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Christopher Cadelago, Glendale News-Press<em><br \/><\/br><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Bob Hope Airport. Credit: Burbank Leader<\/em><em><br \/><\/br><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Map credit: Los Angeles Times <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials in Burbank are pushing the developers of a high-speed rail line to add a stop at Bob Hope Airport. City officials have proposed the stop be located near the intersection of Hollywood Way and San Fernando Road. Representatives of the California High-Speed Rail Authority had planned to present two station alternatives to their board [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}