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In his Los Angeles Times column last Wednesday, Steve Lopez invited readers to weigh in on the high speed rail project. I wrote a detailed response for him and despite emailing the column to him, it appears he didn’t read it or any of the other points made by HSR supporters. At least, that’s the [...]
Tim Sheehan at the Fresno Bee reports that there are five consortiums on the short list to start building high speed rail in the Central Valley: Van Ark said the companies have formed into five teams that the authority has qualified to compete for a contract on a stretch of the line through Fresno, from [...]
You can tell a lot about the inherent biases and assumptions of the state’s media by their opinion columnists. Most of them are deeply conservative people. I don’t mean that in an ideological sense, but in an attitudinal sense. They are usually not interested at all in change, and instead look on it skeptically. This [...]
Californians For High Speed Rail (CA4HSR) issued a press release and joint letter today with the National Association of Railroad Passengers (NARP) and the Midwest High Speed Rail Association in support of Governor Brown’s efforts to push the California project forward this year in the Central Valley, while also urging him to work to accelerate HSR-related projects [...]
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