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I’m sure you’ve all seen the latest economic numbers. Zero jobs were created in August. Europe is in full-fledged crisis. The New York Times reports we are on the verge of a double-dip recession. To the extent we ever did exit the 2007-09 recession, it was solely due to the stimulus package that President Barack [...]
As HSR supporters across the political spectrum continue speaking out about the project’s merits, as the project gathers momentum with the selection of a Fresno-Bakersfield segment for the first use of $5.5 billion in construction funding, HSR critics are getting increasingly desperate. Dennis Wyatt, managing editor for the Manteca Bulletin published one of the most [...]
Jim Wunderman of the Bay Area Council and Carl Guardino of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group have a great op-ed today defending the strategy behind starting the HSR project in the Central Valley. They both express disappointment that the project isn’t starting in the Bay Area: We would have liked to see the first phase [...]
The core belief that animates most HSR deniers is that oil prices will always be cheap. As we saw in the 2000s, this is just not true – and when gas prices spiked in the summer of 2008, Californians realized they needed to invest in mass transit alternatives. They not only voted to approve $10 [...]
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