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I’m not surprised to see Washington Post columnist Robert J. Samuelson make an uninformed attack on high speed rail. It’s another sad sign of how massively out of touch with reality and evidence the beltway media have become in this country. Samuelson’s ostensible argument is that high speed rail crates no new economic value. It’s [...]
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 [...]
In response to the deeply flawed Washington Post editorial attacking California HSR – an editorial this site thoroughly debunked last week – US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood wrote to the WaPo to criticize their flawed arguments: The Jan. 12 editorial “Hit the brakes,” criticizing California’s high-speed rail plan, was shortsighted and parochial. If President Dwight [...]
Last month the Los Angeles Times had a very good article about the debate over where to put HSR tracks on the Fresno to Bakersfield initial construction segment, focusing on the competing concerns of farmers and cities. About 1/3 of the article was devoted to a discussion of the benefits of HSR for the region, [...]
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