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This op-ed in the Sacramento Bee today, Case for high speed rail only grows stronger, is a big freaking deal. It is signed by San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, San José Mayor Chuck Reed, Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, and Fresno Mayor Ashley Swearengin. It’s not just the standard “yay HSR!” [...]
The Legislative Analyst’s Office clearly hoped that their attack on the California high speed rail project would prove decisive and lead the legislature to follow the disreputable path taken by Wisconsin, Ohio, Florida, and New Jersey in rejecting federal passenger rail funds. That’s not going to happen. Instead, a backlash is growing against the LAO’s [...]
It was a long and busy weekend in LA at the California Democratic Party convention, which for me included a trip to the RailPAC meeting at MTA headquarters on Saturday morning. It was a very good and productive meeting, and I’ll say more about it in an upcoming post. I’m also playing catch-up on a [...]
Every so often this blog spends several days in a row focused on the latest HSR drama on the Peninsula. This is of necessity, since that’s where the most high-profile debates are taking place, and where most of the state’s HSR denialism and criticism are coming from, so it makes sense for us who support [...]
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