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At the end of a tumultuous year for high speed rail in California, opponents are increasingly confident they can kill the project and retard California’s hopes of economic recovery and energy independence. But a review of the year about to end shows that the most important factor in shaping high speed rail’s fate hasn’t been [...]
Once a TV show has been running for a while, producers sometimes get lazy and decide to phone in an episode in by putting together a bunch of clips from previous episodes. Apparently that happens in journalism too. Instead of breaking new ground in examining the California high speed rail project, California Watch and the [...]
Back to the Peninsula for a moment (and if you look at this blog’s posts in recent months, you’ll see we’ve not spent much time there at all), where John Horgan of the San Mateo County Times is spewing more nonsense as part of his anti-rail crusade: Caltrain, which relies on heavy subsidies from three [...]
Maybe the problem isn’t the American political system at all. Maybe it’s just that HSR critics refuse to listen to what the people are telling them. In November 2008, California voters approved $10 billion in funding for our high speed rail system. In April 2010, a poll revealed 77% of respondents on the Peninsula supported [...]
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