Virtually every post on this blog ultimately revolves around the economic benefits of high speed rail, which continue to be systematically denied by HSR critics who are still unable to mount any strong, evidence-based arguments against those benefits. In some ways it’s because they’re not really trying; HSR opposition isn’t so much about deconstructing claims [...]

I had a nagging feeling that yesterday’s post on Richard Florida’s article in The New Republic, “The Roadmap to a High Speed Recovery”, was too short. And judging by the reactions in the comments, the role of HSR in 21st century economic prosperity needs to be more thoroughly explained – as do Florida’s own ideas. [...]

Richard Florida is out with a new article in The New Republic about high speed rail’s role in the 21st century economy titled “The Roadmap to a High Speed Recovery”. In it, Florida returns to an argument he’s made before, that HSR is essential to a 21st century economy. But here he lays it out [...]

Over the weekend, E.J. Schultz at the Fresno Bee took a look private funding for the HSR project – or the lack thereof. To those of you who have been following this blog since at least June 2008, you should not be surprised that private funders haven’t yet jumped into the project – and I’ll [...]