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Note from Robert: the following post is from Kenya Wheeler, a graduate student in the Department of City and Regional Planning at U.C. Berkeley. Thanks to him for agreeing to write this post! The future of High Speed Rail took center stage at a crowded panel discussion with over 120 attendees on May 19th at [...]
Just as the country celebrated the death of its most wanted criminal, Osama bin Laden, it learned that he was speculating about an attack on the American rail system: One idea outlined in handwritten notes was to tamper with an unspecified U.S. rail track so that a train would fall off the track at a [...]
A common argument leveled against high speed rail by HSR deniers is that it can’t work in the US outside the Northeast Corridor because we are a nation of suburban sprawl, and since the proposed routes lack density, they’re not good candidates for HSR. Arguments like these are reasons why we use the label “HSR [...]
Last Thursday, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed AB 619, Assemblymember Bob Blumenfield’s Holocaust Survivor Responsibility Act. Targeted at SNCF, the French national railway that has been interested in building and/or operating the California HSR system, AB 619 would have required any company bidding on our HSR project to disclose whether they transported anyone to Nazi concentration [...]
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