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Talk amongst yourselves. As some have noted, with the opening of the Madrid-Valencia AVE line last week, Spain now leads Europe in HSR trackage. Their first route, opened in 1992, connected Madrid to Cordoba and Sevilla. It took another 10 years for the system to get expanded, but that starter line was enormously successful, beyond [...]
A common argument leveled against high speed rail by HSR deniers is that it can’t work in the US outside the Northeast Corridor because we are a nation of suburban sprawl, and since the proposed routes lack density, they’re not good candidates for HSR. Arguments like these are reasons why we use the label “HSR [...]
Today’s New York Times offers a closer look at Spain’s HSR success, with a reporter filing her story from the AVE: Two years ago, nearly 90 percent of the six million people traveling between Madrid and Barcelona went by air. But early this year the number of train travelers on the route surpassed fliers. The [...]
Wouldn’t it be nice if California news outlets actually showed their viewers how HSR works in other countries, instead of giving airtime and ink to uninformed critics and NIMBYs who make HSR out to be some kind of alien and unfamiliar technology? That’s what one Florida TV news station, Orlando’s WFTV, did earlier this month. [...]
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