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Following up from Saturday’s post, we’re learning more about the $1.5 billion in cuts to high speed rail funding that President Barack Obama agreed to with the Republicans in Congress. First, the good news: this should not hurt existing programs: A $1.5 billion cut in high-speed rail funding, highlighted by Republican leaders in their budget [...]
Daniel Krause and I have a short op-ed in today’s issue of the Christian Science Monitor on high speed rail, economic recovery, and transportation modernization. It’s part of their “one-minute debate” series, and our “opponent” is Robert Poole of the Reason Foundation. Because they were so gracious to accept and run our submission, I’m going [...]
Wow. That’s the first and perhaps best response to this letter to the Peninsula Cities Coalition from Bay Area Council President and CEO Jim Wunderman regarding what he calls the PCC’s “obstructionist policies towards California high speed rail and the grave danger that they pose for our state.” Read the whole thing: BACtoPCCreHSR This is [...]
I’m here at San Jose Airport, about to board a flight to Burbank for a daytrip to LA. As usual, every time I do this I think “this would be so much easier on a high speed train” – especially since my ultimate destination is near downtown LA, meaning Union Station would be much more [...]
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