The California High-Speed Rail Authority will host a series of open house meetings in the Bay Area in the coming weeks to update residents on planning for the project that will zoom through Morgan Hill.
A Sept. 23 meeting will take place at the Morgan Hill Community and Cultural Center, 17000 Monterey Road. The open house will take place from 4 to 7 p.m., with a formal presentation by HSR staff at 6 p.m.
“The California High-Speed Rail Program represents a significant investment in northern California’s transportation system, which will not only improve connections within the region and to the rest of the state but also provide a range of environmental, economic and community benefits,” reads the announcement from HSRA.
Planning for the HSR’s Northern California Corridor, between San Francisco and Merced, has been underway for several years. Environmental analysis and preliminary engineering are just beginning.
Information presented at the meetings will include possible rail system alignments and station locations under consideration, according to HSRA staff. Attendees at the meetings will be able to ask questions and submit comments.
Other HSRA open house meetings coming up in September will take place at the following locations. All meetings will take place 4 to 7 p.m., with a formal presentation at 6 p.m.:
—Sept. 8 at the Commonwealth Club, 555 Post Street, San Francisco;
—Sept. 15 at the Roosevelt Community Center, 901 E. Santa Clara Street, San Jose;
—Oct. 7 at the Burlingame Auditorium, 850 Burlingame Ave., Burlingame.
Small Business Certification workshops
The HSRA will also host a series of free Small Business and Disadvantaged Business Enterprise certification workshops in northern California in September.
These will provide “hands-on technical assistance for on-the-spot online certification from the California Department of General Services.
The workshops will take place at the following locations:
—10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sept. 8 at the San Francisco Library, Latino Room, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco;
—10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sept. 23 at the Martin Luther King Library, 150 E. San Fernando Street, San Jose;
—10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sept. 29 at the Mountain View Chamber of Commerce, 580 Castro Street, Mountain View.
