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Last week Governor Jerry Brown signed two bills in Los Angeles designed to help get a new NFL stadium built near LA Live and Staples Center. The two bills, AB 900 and SB 292, provide for expedited review of lawsuits brought under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) against certain kinds of infrastructure projects or [...]
In the aftermath of the Wenzhou crash, where two Chinese high speed trains collided after a lighting strike caused a signal to fail, the Chinese high speed rail system has been coming under intense domestic scrutiny for its perceived safety lapses. In response to public pressure, the Chinese government this week announced it is dropping [...]
The Riverside Press-Enterprise wants you to believe that somehow Water trumps rail – that California can only afford to do so much in order to meet our challenges here in the 21st century, and that new water conveyance is necessary whereas rail is not: Gov. Jerry Brown has the state’s top infrastructure priorities half right. [...]
Today’s San Francisco Chronicle has a big section on high speed rail. Some of the articles are up online, some won’t be until 3AM on Monday. Included are: Jim Wunderman, president and CEO of the Bay Area Council, writes about HSR as The Test of Our Generation: Today, our generation faces its test. Three years [...]
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