Earlier this week we looked at the ways in which two right-wing gubernatorial candidates in the Midwest were using opposition to high speed rail in their campaigns. Which raises the question for us Californians, who are in the midst of a campaign to elect Arnold Schwarzenegger’s replacement, of how HSR is going to play in [...]

In a Sacramento courtroom today, Judge Michael Kenny indicated he intends to deny the request from the town of Atherton to reopen the Atherton v. CHSRA case the city mostly lost last year. According to a release sent out by the California High Speed Rail Authority: In a tentative ruling issued today, Sacramento Superior Court [...]

I’ve been pretty consistent here at the California HSR Blog over the last 2+ years in saying that high speed rail is something that everyone can and should support, regardless of political affiliation. Republicans such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ray LaHood, and Florida Congressman John Mica have shown strong support for the HSR project, among others [...]

The headline doesn’t remotely fit the content, but this editorial from the Pasadena Star-News is pretty good: If Californians want to actually travel on a high-speed train, as opposed to reading 30 years of op-ed pieces about the concept, as we already have, then they’ll realize the train has to go somewhere. Nowhere doesn’t work. [...]