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High speed rail critics have been trying to use the latest project cost estimates, which total $98 billion in estimated 2035 dollars, to undermine public support for the project. In this effort, austerity politics is their ally. Critics are hoping that Californians are in a mood where they believe the best response to the current [...]
Today the LA Times opinion page asked the public whether they should continue to endorse the project or not: What do you think? Should we come out in favor of this in Friday’s pages, or opposed to this? Make your best argument, pro or con. The flippant answer would be to tell them to read [...]
This blog has repeatedly argued that because of a failed status quo – with unemployment in Fresno County of 15.8% – we cannot simply abandon efforts that would create jobs and reduce our costly dependence on oil because those efforts aren’t easy. Almost to a person, HSR critics and opponents all believe that the status [...]
In today’s Bakersfield Californian is an excellent pro-HSR op-ed by John Spaulding, executive secretary of the Building & Construction Trades Council for Kern, Inyo and Mono counties. Titled “We must embrace the jobs at Kern County’s doorstep” it makes an excellent argument for HSR as being part of economic recovery for Bakersfield and Kern County: [...]
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