{"id":27169,"date":"2023-07-02T13:47:12","date_gmt":"2023-07-02T20:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=27169"},"modified":"2023-07-02T13:47:13","modified_gmt":"2023-07-02T20:47:13","slug":"heres-what-californias-first-high-speed-rail-stations-will-look-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/07\/02\/heres-what-californias-first-high-speed-rail-stations-will-look-like\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s what California\u2019s first high-speed rail stations will look like"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/author\/john-king\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">John King<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>July 1, 2023  (SFChronicle.com)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\" id=\"1-image-23988361\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.hdnux.com\/photos\/01\/33\/40\/42\/23988361\/3\/1200x0.jpg\" alt=\"Early design concepts for the Fresno high-speed rail station include a distinctive metal canopy, part of the design by Foster + Partners and Arup.\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Early design concepts for the Fresno high-speed rail station include a distinctive metal canopy, part of the design by Foster + Partners and Arup.California High-Speed Rail Authority<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\" id=\"2-image-23988358\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.hdnux.com\/photos\/01\/33\/40\/42\/23988358\/3\/1200x0.jpg\" alt=\"An early conceptual rendering of the high-speed rail station in Merced,\u00a0scheduled to open between 2030 and 2033.\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Unless you\u2019re driving past the immense concrete columns rising along Central Valley roadways in communities like Fresno, the notion of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/sf\/article\/high-speed-rail-transit-17724143.php\">high-speed rail<\/a>&nbsp;coming to California can seem abstract. Out of sight, out of mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But as construction of the first 119 miles lumbers forward in the Central Valley, another key aspect of the mammoth, multi-decade project is gearing up in San Francisco: design work on the valley\u2019s four stations. Structures that will need to function with intuitive ease \u2014 and symbolize the arrival of a new form of transportation in the nation\u2019s most populous\u00a0state.<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/author\/john-king\/\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Written By <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/author\/john-king\/\" target=\"_blank\">John King<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/johnkingSFChron\/\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnKingSFChron\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John King is The Chronicle\u2019s urban design critic, a post that ranges from parklets to sea level rise and the back-story of local icons. One is the subject of \u201cPortal: San Francisco\u2019s Ferry Building and the Reinvention of American Cities,\u201d John\u2019s book being published this November by W.W. Norton. A two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist who joined The Chronicle in 1992, he also is an honorary member of the American Society of Landscape Architects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/img\/core\/hearst_newspapers_logo.svg\" alt=\"HEARST newspapers logo\">\u00a92023 Hearst Communications, Inc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/img\/logos\/black\/logo.svg\" alt=\"houston chronicle logo\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John King July 1, 2023 (SFChronicle.com) Unless you\u2019re driving past the immense concrete columns rising along Central Valley roadways in communities like Fresno, the notion of&nbsp;high-speed rail&nbsp;coming to California can seem abstract. Out of sight, out of mind. But as construction of the first 119 miles lumbers forward in the&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/07\/02\/heres-what-californias-first-high-speed-rail-stations-will-look-like\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[549],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27170,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27169\/revisions\/27170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}