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Mark Reutter, a rail policy expert and editor of Railroad History, has a memo up at Progressive Policy Institute arguing that Obama’s HSR strategy is wrong – that instead of spreading funds to a number of different projects, the federal government should instead focus on two state projects – in this case, California and Florida. [...]
HNTB, which is a contractor for the California High Speed Rail Authority on some of the project segments (as well as other transportation projects), commissioned a poll that shows public support for HSR remains strong: Nearly nine in ten (88 percent) Americans are currently open to high-speed rail travel for long-distance travel within the United [...]
Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a good governor on TV, although he has shown himself to be one of the worst governors of all time when it actually comes to policymaking. This is especially true of high speed rail. On TV he has often spoken glowingly of HSR and did so again on Meet The Press last [...]
Ah, the Orange County Register. Along with the San Diego Union-Tribune it has one of the most right-wing and anti-government editorial pages in the state. Unsurprisingly, when it comes to high speed rail, both papers have been among its most persistent critics. Yesterday the Register posted an anti-HSR op-ed by Richard Stegemeier, a former CEO [...]
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