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In news that is neither shocking nor surprising, the Fresno Bee/California Watch report that Kings County HSR critics are determined to reroute the project even if they have to go to court to do it: Even if state officials can scrape together the billions of dollars needed to fund California’s ambitious high-speed rail plans, lawsuits [...]
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 [...]
30 years ago, Governor Jerry Brown brought the concept of high speed rail to California. He fought hard to get Caltrans to embrace it and when a group of Japanese investors proposed a Shinkansen-style train from Los Angeles to San Diego in the early 1980s, Brown helped their project along, including giving it a CEQA [...]
There’s an odd article in today’s Fresno Bee by Tim Sheehan, who usually has written good and insightful articles on the California HSR project. The article, “What California has to show on high-speed rail — pages of reports and a chorus of concerns”, is not biased against the project, and the reporting is sound. But [...]
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