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The Bakersfield Californian, Kern County’s main daily newspaper, has a great editorial out calling on local elected officials to drop their recent opposition to the high speed rail project and instead work together to ensure Kern County reaps the benefits. The whole thing is worth a read, so I’ll just offer a few choice excerpts: [...]
Back in August a local TV station in Los Angeles, Fox 11, launched a misleading hatchet job on the high speed rail project. They’re at it again, this time with an editorial blasting the HSR project. And it’s as misleading as ever. At a minimum cost of $68 billion dollars, California’s high-speed rail is the [...]
We’re seeing a new anti-high speed rail argument unfold in California, and it needs to be smacked down hard. An editorial in the Santa Cruz Sentinel argues that the state’s road maintenance backlog cannot be addressed at the same time as we build new transportation systems like high speed rail. Rather than maintaining what we [...]
Back in August, Manteca Bulletin managing editor Dennis Wyatt attacked the California High Speed Rail project, claiming that nobody would ride the trains and therefore it wasn’t a sound investment. This blog did the usual demolition job on this HSR denial, pointing out the numerous ways that the evidence disproved Wyatt’s assumptions. Unfortunately for Manteca [...]
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