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Busy here in SoCal for the weekend, and heading back up to Monterey tomorrow on the Coast Starlight. So this post will have to suffice for Sunday and Monday. I’m sure you all can manage. Bart Reed of the Transit Coalition was on LA CityView earlier this week defending the pro side on Prop 1A [...]
One constant feature of HSR activism are the folks who don’t think it’s a good enough idea. These people turn up their noses at HSR as being too mainstream, too boring. No, what we really need is some gee-whiz technological solution that has never really been tried successfully on a large scale anywhere, but looks [...]
It’s HSR editorial season, it seems, and the latest entry comes from the Modesto Bee. It’s certainly not the sad joke of an editorial the Contra Costa Times put out, but it still demonstrates many of the common flaws the state media uses to assess the project – particularly an inability to examine the project [...]
As you probably know by now, we here at the California High Speed Rail blog are HUGE fans of Fiona Ma. She has taken the lead on high speed rail in the state legislature, and her trip on the record-breaking TGV journey in April 2007 was the turning point in public awareness for high speed [...]
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