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The Los Angeles Times editorial board is a solidly pro-high speed rail group, but their reporting on the project is a different matter entirely. While an editorial board is free to take whatever position they want to on any issue, the articles written by reporters are supposed to be rooted in facts and free of [...]
To hear Southern Californians tell it, the weekend of July 16-17 will bring what is being called “carmageddon” – the closure of Interstate 405 through the Sepulveda Pass as part of the $1 billion widening project. While the closure will have an impact, it’s probably overstated. I am just old enough to remember the claims [...]
There is a longstanding double standard in California infrastructure planning. Freeway widening projects are simply accepted, even though their costs are enormous, even though they usually fail to improve travel conditions, and even though they have significant impacts on communities. I’ve argued before that in the case I’m most familiar with, the widening of Interstate [...]
Most of us who support high speed rail do so out of pragmatism. We look at a situation where our state is choked by traffic, suffering from the economic effects of an overdependence on costly oil, and in need of more sustainable forms of mass transit that get us around this state quickly and affordably. [...]
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