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One of the most common things we’ve found around the world with high speed rail is that it is very, very successful at attracting riders to switch from flying between two points to the train. Despite deeply ignorant claims that because Southwest Airlines offers cheap flights, we don’t need HSR, the evidence indicates that HSR [...]
Mere months after most of their claims against the HSR project were rejected by Judge Michael Kenny in Sacramento Superior Court, the cities of Menlo Park and Atherton are using an obscure legal maneuver to try and reopen that suit, as Mike Rosenberg reports:
The plaintiffs hope their motion, to be filed in Sacramento Superior Court [...]
The opposition to California high speed rail has generally emphasized different things at different times. In 2008 the arguments focused around claims that HSR wasn’t necessary for California, wouldn’t work here, that nobody would ride it, etc. Those arguments were roundly rejected by California voters when they voted to approve $10 billion in funding for [...]
Yesterday, San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed and San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom issued a joint press release announcing the Bay Area region’s preference for stimulus and other HSR spending the Bay Area to be directed towards upgrades to the Caltrain corridor, the expansion of SJ Diridon Station, and the establishment of the new SF Transbay [...]
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