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High Desert Corridor
The High Desert Corridor is a proposed multimodal corridor in northern Los Angeles County, California, Los Angeles and San Bernardino County, California, San Bernardino Counties in the U.S. state of California. The project, which will travel between Palmdale, California, Palmdale and Apple Valley, California, Apple Valley through the High Desert (California), High Desert region, would mainly consist of a high-speed rail line connecting the California High-Speed Rail system at its proposed Palmdale Transportation Center, Palmdale station with the Brightline West route at its proposed Victor Valley station. Current status As of August 2024, the project has been in an early planning phase. Regulatory approval according to federal environmental legislation NEPA as well as funding for construction was still outstanding. The project is managed by the High Desert Corridor Joint Powers Agency (HDC JPA), an entity owned by LA County, LA Metro, and surrounding cities. Project developm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caltrans
The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is an Executive (government), executive department of the U.S. state of California. The department is part of the Government of California#State agencies, cabinet-level California State Transportation Agency (CalSTA). Caltrans is headquartered in Sacramento, California, Sacramento. Caltrans manages the state's State highways in California, highway system, which includes the California Freeway and Expressway System, supports public transportation systems throughout the state and provides funding and oversight for three state-supported Amtrak intercity rail routes (''Capitol Corridor'', ''Pacific Surfliner'' and ''San Joaquins'') which are collectively branded as ''Amtrak California''. In 2015, Caltrans released a new mission statement: "Provide a safe, sustainable, integrated and efficient transportation system to enhance California's economy and livability." History The earliest predecessor of Caltrans was the Bureau of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LA County
Los Angeles County, officially the County of Los Angeles and sometimes abbreviated as LA County, is the most populous county in the United States, with 9,663,345 residents estimated in 2023. Its population is greater than that of 40 individual U.S. states. Comprising 88 incorporated cities and 101+ unincorporated areas within a total area of , it is home to more than a quarter of Californians and is one of the most ethnically diverse U.S. counties. The county's seat, Los Angeles, is the second most populous city in the United States, with 3,820,914 residents estimated in 2023. The county is the domicile of the U.S. motion picture industry since the latter's inception in the early 20th century. History Los Angeles County is one of the original counties of California, created at the time of statehood in 1850. The county originally included parts of what are now Kern, San Bernardino, Riverside, Inyo, Tulare, Ventura, and Orange counties. In 1851 and 1852, Los Ange ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joint Powers Authority
A joint powers authority (JPA) is an entity permitted under the laws of some U.S. states, whereby two or more public authorities (e.g. local governments, or utility or transport districts), not necessarily located in the same state, may jointly exercise any power common to all of them. Joint powers authorities may be used where: * an activity naturally transcends the boundaries of existing public authorities. An example is the Transbay Joint Powers Authority, set up to promote the construction of a new transit center in San Francisco, with several transportation boards and counties around the San Francisco Bay Area as members. * by combining their commercial efforts, public authorities can achieve economies of scale or market power. An example is National IPA, a purchasing consortium of local government and education agencies, also known as cooperative purchasing. Joint powers authorities are particularly widely used in California (where they are permitted under Section 6502 o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Bernardino County
San Bernardino County ( ), officially the County of San Bernardino and sometimes abbreviated as S.B. County, is a county located in the southern portion of the U.S. state of California, and is located within the Inland Empire area. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 2.18 million, making it the fifth-most populous county in California and the 14th-most populous in the United States. The county seat is San Bernardino. While included within the Greater Los Angeles area, San Bernardino County is included in the Riverside–San Bernardino–Ontario metropolitan statistical area. With an area of , San Bernardino County is the largest county in the contiguous United States by area, although some of Alaska's boroughs and census areas are larger. The county is close to the size of West Virginia or the country of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and spans an area from south of the San Bernardino Mountains in San Bernardino Valley, to the Nevada border and the Colorad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles Times
The ''Los Angeles Times'' is an American Newspaper#Daily, daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California, in 1881. Based in the Greater Los Angeles city of El Segundo, California, El Segundo since 2018, it is the List of newspapers in the United States, sixth-largest newspaper in the U.S. and the largest in the Western United States with a print circulation of 118,760. It has 500,000 online subscribers, the fifth-largest among U.S. newspapers. Owned by Patrick Soon-Shiong and published by California Times, the paper has won over 40 Pulitzer Prizes since its founding. In the 19th century, the paper developed a reputation for civic boosterism and opposition to Trade union, labor unions, the latter of which led to the Los Angeles Times bombing, bombing of its headquarters in 1910. The paper's profile grew substantially in the 1960s under publisher Otis Chandler, who adopted a more national focus. As with other regional newspapers in California and the United Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Measure M
Measure R was a ballot measure during the November 2008 elections in Los Angeles County, California, that proposed a half-cent sales taxes increase on each dollar of taxable sales (originating in or made from Los Angeles County) for thirty years in order to pay for transportation projects and improvements. The measure was approved by voters with 67.22% of the vote, just over the two-thirds majority required by the state of California to raise local taxes. The project was touted as a way to "improve the environment by getting more Angelenos out of their cars and into the region's growing subway, light rail, and bus services." It will result in the construction or expansion of a dozen rail lines in the county. Funding The ballot measure created an ordinance called the Traffic Relief and Rail Expansion Ordinance, which included an expenditure plan defining specific projects to be funded, timeframes for availability of funds, and expected levels of funding. The ordinance became effect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daily Press (California)
The ''Daily Press'' is a daily newspaper published in Victorville, California. It was owned by Freedom Communications Freedom Communications, Inc. was an American media conglomerate that operated daily and weekly newspapers, websites and mobile applications and television stations, as well as ''Coast Magazine'' and other specialty publications. Headquartered at ... from 1978 to 2014, when it was sold to New Media Investment Group. The 2010 circulation total is 23,000 daily and 30,000 on Sundays. The ''Daily Press'' also publishes the ''Hesperia Star'' and the ''Lucerne Valley Leader''. In March 2024, the newspaper deceased the number of weekly print editions to two and switched from carrier to postal delivery. References External links *Official mobile website– archived 2010-11-13 Daily newspapers published in California Victorville, California Mass media in San Bernardino County, California Newspapers published in California Gannett publications {{Calif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CEQA
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA ) is a California statute passed in 1970 and signed in to law by then-governor Ronald Reagan, shortly after the United States federal government passed the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), to institute a statewide policy of environmental protection. CEQA does not directly regulate land uses, but instead requires state and local agencies within California to follow a protocol of analysis and public disclosure of environmental impacts of proposed projects and, in a departure from NEPA, adopt all feasible measures to mitigate those impacts. CEQA makes environmental protection a mandatory part of every California state and local (public) agency's decision making process. In 1972, the California Supreme Court broadened CEQA by interpreting a "public" project as any development that needed government approval. Since then, CEQA has become the basis for anyone with a grievance against a project to file lawsuits to slow projects by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KOCE-TV
KOCE-TV (channel 50) is a PBS member television station licensed to Huntington Beach, California, United States, serving the Los Angeles area. It is owned by the Public Media Group of Southern California alongside the market's secondary PBS member, KCET (channel 28). The two stations share studios at The Pointe (on West Alameda Avenue and Bob Hope Drive, between The Burbank Studios and Walt Disney Studios complexes) in Burbank; KOCE-TV maintains a secondary studio at the South Coast Corporate Center (in the South Coast Metro area) in Costa Mesa and shares transmitter facilities with KSCI (channel 18) atop Mount Wilson. Since 2011, the station has been branded as PBS SoCal. KOCE-TV and KCET are two of four PBS member stations serving Greater Los Angeles (the others being San Bernardino–based KVCR-DT hannel 24 which mainly serves the Inland Empire, and the Los Angeles Unified School District–run KLCS hannel 58. History The station first signed on the air on November 20, 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metrolink (California)
Metrolink is a commuter rail system in Southern California, serving Los Angeles County, California, Los Angeles, Orange County, California, Orange, Riverside County, California, Riverside, San Bernardino County, California, San Bernardino, and Ventura County, California, Ventura counties, as well as to Oceanside, California, Oceanside in San Diego County, California, San Diego County. The system consists of eight lines and List of Metrolink (California) stations, 69 stations operating on of track. This includes Arrow (rail service), Arrow, which Metrolink operates under a contract with the San Bernardino County Transportation Authority (SBCTA). In , the system had a ridership of , or about per weekday as of . Metrolink connects with Los Angeles County's Los Angeles Metro Rail, Metro Rail and Los Angeles Metro Busway, Metro Busway systems, North County Transit District's Coaster (rail service), Coaster commuter rail and Sprinter (rail service), Sprinter hybrid rail services, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victorville
Victorville is a city in Victor Valley in San Bernardino County, California. Its population as of the 2020 census was 134,810. Victorville is the principal city of a Victor Valley–based urban area defined by the United States Census Bureau: the Victorville– Hesperia– Apple Valley urban area had a population of 355,816 as of the 2020 census, making it the 117th largest in the United States. History The Serrano people were the first Native Americans to inhabit the area. In 1858, Aaron G. Lane came to what is now known as Victorville and founded a waystation called "Lane's Crossing." For many years it provided shelter and supplies for people journeying across the desert from the east to San Bernardino. Lane's Crossing was on the Mojave River on today's Turner Road, two miles north of where Interstate 15 crosses the river. Lane was a veteran of the Mexican–American War who had had malaria during that war. Originally he migrated west to join the California gold rush, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
