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(Flickr image of Madrid Atocha station by luisffranco) Earlier this year RENFE, the government-owned Spanish national railway operator, opened the final leg of the Madrid-Barcelona AVE high speed rail route, on the heels of the Málaga extension. And Spain is on track to have several new lines, including a link to Santander and Bilbao, open [...]
We’re going to take a few days off here at the HSR blog; new posts will begin again on Monday, May 26. In the meantime millions of Californians will be confronting their first holiday weekend with $4 gas ($5 for diesel vehicles): I took that photo yesterday afternoon here in Monterey, and most stations in [...]
This is something of an addendum to yesterday’s Ridership post, where I argued that fuel costs would be rising for some time to come, ensuring that HSR will have a high ridership, more than likely enough to “cover its costs” and generate a profit as is the case with the globe’s other HSR lines. The [...]
I have to confess that the arguments over the CHSRA’s ridership projections have seemed somewhat pointless to me. Are there really people out there who think folks won’t flock to a high speed train? Amtrak California routes like the Capitol Corridor are seeing record ridership – ridership between Berkeley and San José is up a [...]
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