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I’m down in Orange County for the weekend, visiting the old stomping grounds. I hope to make time for a short trip to look at the Anaheim ROW before the Super Bowl gets underway.
Trips like these always remind me of how much easier HSR would be. To get here, my wife took me to San [...]
Just got back into Monterey after a nice trip back from Seattle aboard the Coast Starlight. I know there was some discussion in the previous post about that route and Amtrak more broadly. While this is intended as an open thread, I’ll take my publisher’s prerogative to add some thoughts on this, with the experience [...]
That’s the claim from two economic analysts that was written up in today’s New York Times:
The line is part of China’s 2 trillion renminbi, or $292.9 billion, investment in a nationwide high-speed passenger-rail network that may be too much train, too fast.
The time savings that the new system delivers may not justify the cost, creating [...]
Much as I expected, the 2009 Business Plan has become fodder for all the usual suspects to try and rehash their tired anti-HSR arguments. Although they failed completely in their efforts to use those arguments to block Prop 1A in 2008, they see an opportunity to reverse that outcome with any news that the HSR [...]
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