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(See below for Kevin Drum’s response, which is also the first comment to the post. He submitted the comment late Monday night, but I wasn’t able to approve it until Wednesday morning.) Kevin Drum, the Orange County-based political blogger for Mother Jones, last week chose to trash HSR without even making a close look at [...]
Note from Robert Cruickshank: The following is a guest post from Tom McNamara, a regular commenter on the blog, about the initial operating segment requirement in state and federal law regarding HSR funding. Future installments of this series will appear in the next few days and weeks. THE EVOLUTION OF INTIAL OPERATING SEGMENT PART I: [...]
Streetsblog Capitol Hill recently had a good discussion about “peak car” and whether it is a real phenomenon or a product of the recession: In an article titled “We Are Approaching Peak Car Use,” the magazine examines an Australian study [PDF] which found driving rates are falling in a number of cities in Europe, North [...]
Another month, another set of ridership gains on Amtrak California. And this time the gains are led by the “train to somewhere” route, the San Joaquins, which like the first construction segment of the high speed rail project include stops at Fresno, Hanford and Bakersfield: San Joaquin, which runs through the Central Valley, linking Los [...]
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