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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 [...]
One of the more common arguments against HSR is that “nobody will take a train when they can get from SF to LA faster by flying on Southwest for $49.” There are numerous flaws with that argument, including the fact that you can rarely get a $49 fare on short notice, and the fact that [...]
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