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As California’s budget crisis continues, the usual arguments about the $10 billion high speed rail bond are getting dredged up again. The Sacramento Bee’s Dan Walters includes HSR as one of the reasons he says state politicians are digging their fiscal hole deeper:
The state has tens of billions of dollars in unsold bonds, and Treasurer [...]
Peter, a regular commenter here at the California High Speed Rail Blog, attended last night’s meeting in San José regarding the Diridon to Tamien segment, which runs through the Willow Glen neighborhood. There has been a lot of debate about how to construct this particular segment, including a desire for a tunnel, so this meeting [...]
We’re used to the claims from HSR deniers and critics that HSR’s costs are too high to be justified. These folks think nothing of dismissing the hundreds of thousands of jobs that the system would create. Their argument, a deflationary and Hooverist argument, has been that we should not spend the $40 billion or so [...]
Palo Alto mayor Pat Burt is calling for a delay in the HSR planning process, in this case asking for double the amount of time currently planned to review the upcoming Alternatives Analysis for the Peninsula segment:
Mayor Pat Burt said the city council’s high-speed rail subcommittee this week decided to send a letter asking the [...]
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