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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 [...]
The Riverside Press-Enterprise wants you to believe that somehow Water trumps rail – that California can only afford to do so much in order to meet our challenges here in the 21st century, and that new water conveyance is necessary whereas rail is not: Gov. Jerry Brown has the state’s top infrastructure priorities half right. [...]
Obviously this is “LAO report reaction week” here on the California High Speed Rail Blog. That’s out of necessity, given the impact of this report. And it’s good to see that there’s one paper out there that kind of, sort of, gets it: But dumping high-speed rail would be a myopic mistake, and the report [...]
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