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Two significant announcements from the White House today could have an impact on the California high speed rail project. The first is President Barack Obama’s call for a “clean” extension of the expired transportation bill: As part of an effort to spur additional job creation, the Obama administration will push Congress to keep surface transportation [...]
Tim Sheehan of the Fresno Bee has a new article out at California Watch on the “ballooning” costs of high speed rail. It’s a classic example of how the media in the United States obscure more than they reveal in their reporting, and shows the unstated assumptions that often drive reporting on public spending. Sheehan’s [...]
As part of the EIR/EIS process in the Central Valley, a series of workshops will be held this week on the project and the draft EIRs. The workshops will be informational, and public comments will be accepted in written or electronic form. Spoken comments won’t be accepted until public hearings in September, which I am [...]
As people pore over the Draft EIR for the Central Valley HSR section, the usual suspects are beginning to scream “omg too expensive!” Nobody should be surprised to see anti-HSR legislators like Senator Alan Lowenthal and Republicans attacking the new cost estimates: We really need to re-examine what we’re spending and what we’re going to [...]
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