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Jennifer Levitz of the Wall Street Journal has a very good article out this week titled High-Speed Rail Stalls: Freight Carriers Balk at Sharing Tracks With the Faster Passenger Service. It tells a story familiar to readers of this blog: how freight rail companies like Union Pacific are fighting against high speed rail plans, even [...]
(Note: the following post is by Dennis Lytton, who was in Washington DC last week lobbying for passenger rail funding.) Last week I attended the National Association of Railroad Passengers annual meeting in Washington, DC. NARP is the largest national membership advocacy organization for train and rail transit passengers. In fact, it’s the only group [...]
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 [...]
California State Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (head of the majority Democrats) proposed a jobs package yesterday, and high speed rail is a key element: A day before the first legislative vote on efforts to close California’s $19.9 billion deficit, Senate Democrats on Tuesday mapped out a package of bills they claim will rev [...]
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