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Steven T. Jones has a good article on the fight over the Transbay Terminal in today’s San Francisco Bay Guardian, giving some important background details on how an all-too-familiar kind of San Francisco political spat is affecting the debate over who will fund the downtown rail extension into the Transbay Terminal. First and foremost, the [...]
At least here in California, according to Caltrans and Amtrak, who partner to operate the Amtrak California intercity routes: Californians are leaving their cars, SUVs, vans, and trucks at home and riding trains instead in unprecedented numbers. Today, Caltrans and Amtrak reported a record-setting 5.5 million passengers rode California’s state-supported intercity passenger trains in federal [...]
We’ve been rightly celebrating our victory on high speed rail and Prop 1A all week. But already there are reminders that the fight is by no means over, and that the HSR deniers who were rejected by the voters on Tuesday are regrouping in their effort to kill high speed rail. One of them is [...]
We talk so much about the stock market these days – its ups, its downs, and its crashes – that we seem to forget what it’s ostensibly all about – an investment. You put some money in now and you get MORE in return later. Of course there is a cost to this – that [...]
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