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One of the more troubling elements of the flawed Legislative Analyst Report on high speed rail was its attack on HSR’s role in reducing California’s carbon emissions. The LAO claimed that HSR would actually not be very helpful in achieving those reductions. But as we’ll see, the LAO’s claims here are flawed: Given these considerations, [...]
Today was high speed rail day in the State Capitol in Sacramento, with both an Assembly and a Senate hearing on Governor Jerry Brown’s request to uphold the will of the voters and fund HSR construction in 2012. The Assembly hearings made it clear that the Democratic leadership there is strongly in support of the [...]
That headline is merely the logical extension of today’s report from the Legislative Analyst’s Office recommending that the Legislature follow the lead of right-wing states like Wisconsin and Florida and throw away $3.5 billion in federal stimulus money by refusing to fund high speed rail construction this year. The reason the LAO gives, that “funding [...]
In the wake of the new California high speed rail business plan, which calls for sharing tracks with other passenger rail services in some urban areas, some are charging that this means the service will merely be “commuter rail” in those urban areas, according to the Voice of OC: Political reality is scaling down California’s [...]
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