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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 [...]
This is a great op-ed that appeared in the Fresno Bee earlier this week by John Diener, explaining how high speed rail will benefit farmers like himself: Although many people believe that building a high-speed rail network will disrupt agriculture, I believe that developing high-speed rail will preserve farming in the Valley. Building high-speed trains [...]
It’s about time more people started challenging the grip that NIMBYs appear to have over passenger rail projects in the Bay Area. At a time when Northern California appears to have abandoned mass transit, as Southern California and the Central Valley take leadership in building passenger rail infrastructure, the Bay Area might be left behind [...]
This week the transportation advocacy organization America 2050 released a new study, HSR in America that scores the various proposed HSR corridors and provides a more detailed analysis of the potential for HSR in each region. It’s an attempt to provide some rationality and sense to the debate over where HSR investment should be directed. [...]
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