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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 [...]
Now that we know one of the two Central Valley HSR segments will be built first, discussion is emerging as to which segment should receive the state and federal funding. In last week’s Modesto Bee, Merced County Supervisor John Pedrozo makes the case for Merced-Fresno based on five points: First, the project already plans for [...]
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