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So far, high speed rail and other trains have benefited from the public uproar over the Transportation Security Administration’s new unsafe backscatter machines and “enhanced” patdowns, which many have equated to sexual molestation. I’ve heard and read a lot of “next time I’m taking the train” comments, enabled by the fact that the nation’s rail [...]
If you thought air travel was bad now, just wait until you see these “saddle seats” installed on an airplane near you: The seat puts passengers in a semi-standing position, allowing airlines to leave only 23 inches of space between each row of seats, compared with traditional airline seats that are positioned 31 to 35 [...]
Yesterday’s San Francisco Chronicle had a particularly ridiculous anti-HSR op-ed by Alain Enthoven and William Grindley in which the California HSR project was accused of telling a false “story” to voters in November 2008. Unfortunately for them, their facts and interpretations are flawed, resulting in an op-ed that is not credible. The system cost estimates [...]
Dan Walters, a Sacramento Bee columnist whose opposition to high speed rail has been consistent, took a look yesterday at the HSR poll released by the California High Speed Rail Authority and found it wanting: In other words, as the authority’s deputy director Jeffrey Barker put it to reporters Tuesday, the train would be “a [...]
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