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While Valley Republican Congressmen are busy representing oil companies, their constituents are growing restless and annoyed. The Bakersfield Californian is now among them, with this editoral calling for Republicans to support HSR funding: If California high-speed rail is the boondoggle that detractors say it is, it sure has a lot of people fooled. Officials behind [...]
Maybe the problem isn’t the American political system at all. Maybe it’s just that HSR critics refuse to listen to what the people are telling them. In November 2008, California voters approved $10 billion in funding for our high speed rail system. In April 2010, a poll revealed 77% of respondents on the Peninsula supported [...]
We will know the California high speed rail project is in trouble when its longtime supporters start turning against it. And we will also know the project is in good shape when those same supporters rally to its defense. Over the last few days, we have seen several editorials and op-eds from longtime HSR backers [...]
Despite the worst recession in 60 years, the United States of America remains the wealthiest nation on earth by quite a wide margin. And California is one of the wealthiest states in that country, with plenty of available wealth to build and operate a high speed train system from San Francisco to Los Angeles and [...]
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