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As part of his proposed 2012-13 budget Governor Jerry Brown is proposing a broad reorganization of state government, consolidating numerous departments into “agencies” – creating savings by reducing employee head counts through the consolidation process. The California High Speed Rail Authority would be affected by this, merged into a new Transportation Agency. The Sacramento Bee [...]
As California high speed rail article overviews go, this article from the New York Times’ website is fairly decent. It screws up by citing the Legislative Analysts Office report as somehow being authoritative – a common error of American journalists, assuming that these reports are accurate without actually looking at the details. For example, the [...]
As with any major infrastructure project, the question of cost is an important one. And so the San Jose Mercury News on Sunday examined the issue of HSR costs in a front-page article. The article, by Mike Rosenberg and Gary Richards, has some good points about HSR, but overall seems to repeat the common flaw [...]
In the absence of a long-term federal funding source for HSR funds, we have to take what we can get, when we can get it. In that vein, the CHSRA today announced that they are applying for another $2.3 billion in federal HSR grants. From the press release sent to me via email: Today’s announcement [...]
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