The City of Burbank is hosting a community meeting to provide an opportunity for the public to learn about ongoing planning efforts by the California High Speed Rail Authority to construct a high-speed train system that would pass through the City of Burbank. The Authority’s planning team is refining station location alternatives for a single station serving the San Fernando Valley. One of the alternatives being considered is a station located in Burbank near the Bob Hope Airport.

Interested members of the community are encouraged to attend this informative meeting to ask questions of the Authority’s representatives and provide input on the project. Input received at this meeting will help the City provide comments to the project planners before they present their findings to the Authority Board of Directors in July.

• Date: Thursday, June 24, 2010
• Time: 6:30 pm – 9pm
• Location: Community Service Building, Room 104, 150 North Third Street, Burbank

About the California High Speed Rail Project

The California High Speed Rail Project is a high-speed (up to 220 mph) conventional train system connecting San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Sacramento, along with other intermediate cities. The route would pass through the City of Burbank and would include a stop near Downtown Burbank.

City of Burbank staff has been working with the California High Speed Rail Authority to ensure all potential impacts within the City of Burbank are addressed as part of the project’s environmental review. While staff has been monitoring the Authority’s ongoing progress as it develops the proposed project, at this time there has been no formal recommendation or policy direction made by staff or the Burbank City Council in favor or opposition of the Califiornia High Speed Rail Project.

Click here to read more about Burbank’s involvement in this project.  You can also visit www.cahighspeedrail.ca.gov for more information.

Photo Courtesy of the City of Burbank

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