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There is a longstanding double standard in California infrastructure planning. Freeway widening projects are simply accepted, even though their costs are enormous, even though they usually fail to improve travel conditions, and even though they have significant impacts on communities. I’ve argued before that in the case I’m most familiar with, the widening of Interstate [...]
Fresno rail advocate Alan Kandel has a good post up about the recent Fresno-Bakersfield Alternatives Analysis, including concerns from some farmers about possible bypasses of Hanford, Wasco, and Shafter. We’ll have more on that issue later this week. The title of Alan’s post, and its first paragraph, are what interest me today. The post is [...]
Last year, a national coalition of high speed rail and transportation advocacy groups launched a campaign to win $4 billion in the FY 2010 federal budget. President Obama had proposed $1 billion in the budget, but the coalition got the House of Representatives to approve $4 billion. In conference committee negotiations with the Senate, the [...]
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s war on public transportation could claim an extremely high-profile victim: Caltrain. Caltrain CEO Mike Scanlon gave a dire warning today about massive cuts that would wipe out half of Caltrain’s services: Caltrain has gone broke and will likely need to wipe out half its service — including weekend, nighttime and midday trains — [...]
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