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As high speed rail planning proceeds along the proposed SF-LA-Anaheim route, more details become known, and more potential conflicts and obstacles appear. That’s an inevitable aspect of planning a project this significant and this big. It’s also an unfortunate side effect of the CHSRA having been a sparsely-funded agency for so many years, making it [...]
In a New York Times op-ed today, Christian Wolmar argues for focusing national HSR efforts on the Northeast Corridor, upgrading the Acela as a demonstration of HSR’s value:
Yet the $8 billion set aside for high-speed rail in his 2009 stimulus package, split among 31 states, includes only two genuine high-speed rail projects — in Florida [...]
As California’s budget crisis continues, the usual arguments about the $10 billion high speed rail bond are getting dredged up again. The Sacramento Bee’s Dan Walters includes HSR as one of the reasons he says state politicians are digging their fiscal hole deeper:
The state has tens of billions of dollars in unsold bonds, and Treasurer [...]
The Legislative Analyst’s Office is asking the CHSRA to explain its reasoning behind asking for the amount of money the governor has proposed in his 2010-11 budget for CHSRA operations. Although this has been reported as the LAO opposing the funding request, the reality is that the LAO wants the Authority to justify the funding, [...]
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