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A few months ago the “hybrid” or “blended” plan for mixing high speed rail and Caltrain on the Peninsula generated strong criticism from HSR advocates, including on this blog. However, it’s also clear that support is growing for the plan. The Bay Area Council’s recent endorsement of a hybrid plan and call for the MTC [...]
(Note: Made some edits to this post to correct some errors regarding Aaron Renn’s role in HSR discussions and urbanism.) Aaron Renn claims “High Speed Rail is Dead”. After claiming that the public perceives the stimulus to have been a failure (not sure about that) and pointing out that teabagger governors elected in 2010 turned [...]
Today’s New York Times has a pretty good article on the rapidly-growing Chinese high speed rail system, which will open a link from Beijing to Shanghai – two of the nation’s most populous and important cities – on July 1. Those two cities are about the same distance as New York and Atlanta, a trip [...]
Following up from Saturday’s post, we’re learning more about the $1.5 billion in cuts to high speed rail funding that President Barack Obama agreed to with the Republicans in Congress. First, the good news: this should not hurt existing programs: A $1.5 billion cut in high-speed rail funding, highlighted by Republican leaders in their budget [...]
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