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Last month’s Wenzhou high speed rail crash, which killed at least 39 people, has had a profound effect on the Chinese high speed rail project. After a significant amount of public pushback, including a powerful outpouring of anger at Premier Wen Jiabao, Chinese leaders have taken steps to slow the development of the HSR system [...]
As people pore over the Draft EIR for the Central Valley HSR section, the usual suspects are beginning to scream “omg too expensive!” Nobody should be surprised to see anti-HSR legislators like Senator Alan Lowenthal and Republicans attacking the new cost estimates: We really need to re-examine what we’re spending and what we’re going to [...]
As has been the case with the California HSR project for about a year now, all the action is in the Central Valley. That’s where the US Department of Transportation insisted the first HSR funds be spent on new construction, and that makes sense – the Central Valley is key to connecting SF and LA, [...]
California’s unemployment rate has been above 11% for the last two years. Places like Manteca having been hit the hardest – San Joaquin County’s unemployment rate is 16.7%. The damage was done in 2008, when the economy shrank by 3.7% in the 3rd quarter and by a shocking 8.9% in the 4th quarter. And the [...]
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