Armenian Engineers and Scientists of America

Presents
CALIFORNIA HIGH-SPEED RAIL
The California High-Speed Rail Authority was created in 1996 with the goal of connecting California’s major metropolitan areas with a world-class high-speed train that would travel across the state at speeds of up to 220 miles per hour. This goal moved closer to reality when Californians passed Proposition 1A in November 2008, funding high-speed rail with $9 billion in bond funds. The Obama administration expressed their support for California’s project by awarding the project $2.25 billion in stimulus funds earlier this year.
Planning for California’s high-speed train system is well underway, with a 10-year work plan in
place for the build-out of Phase 1, which is a 500-mile stretch of track running from San Francisco, through the Central Valley, to Los Angeles and then to Anaheim. The Palmdale to Los Angeles section of California’s high-speed train project – the largest public infrastructure project in the nation – is 60 miles long. It starts in Palmdale and runs southwest to Sylmar and then south to Los Angeles Union Station, where it will connect with the Los Angeles to Anaheim and Los Angeles to San Diego sections.
Join us for an informative meeting to learn about the California High-Speed Rail. The presentation will discuss the project and touch on the proposed route alignments, station designs, the benefits, costs, as well as environmental issues and benefits.
About the SpeakerSteve Ortmann is the Manager of Transit and Urban Planning for URS Corporation’s Los Angeles office. Steve has 25 years experience as a transportation and urban planning consultant and has
had the opportunity to work on many challenging and interesting transportation projects around the world, including the implementation of the Taiwan High Speed Rail project, the redesign of the
Port Authority subway station beneath the former World Trade Center site in New York City, and the Florida High Speed rail project. Steve has been project manager on dozens of rail planning projects across the US and has a track record for leading projects from planning to implementation.
For the California High Speed Train project, Steve serves as Planning Task Manager for the Palmdale-Los Angeles section of the project and is URS’s Principal-in-Charge for all URS work done on the high speed train project throughout California.
Steve has a BS in Planning from the University of Albany, and a MS in Planning from Texas A&M
University.
AESA Lecture Series The lecture series presented by the Armenian Engineers and Scientists of America are open to the public and free of admission charge. The lectures are related to scientific and/or engineering topics.


Tuesday October 12, 2010, 7:30 pm
The Armenian Society of Los Angeles
320 W. Wilson Avenue, Suite 107
Glendale, CA 91203
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