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One of the consequences of the media’s just blithely assuming, in spite of the facts, that somehow Congressional Republican opposition to HSR means the feds will never ever fund it ever again, is that suddenly people just feel free to make wild and unsupported speculation about the future of not only the California high speed [...]
In a move that should surprise nobody, Republicans in the US House of Representatives voted to kill high speed rail funding. According to some reporters, this should be seen as a permanent problem for the California high speed rail project. Here’s Carolyn Lochhead in the San Francisco Chronicle: No surprise: the House has just passed [...]
Today’s San Francisco Chronicle has a big section on high speed rail. Some of the articles are up online, some won’t be until 3AM on Monday. Included are: Jim Wunderman, president and CEO of the Bay Area Council, writes about HSR as The Test of Our Generation: Today, our generation faces its test. Three years [...]
It’s news that won’t surprise anybody who has been paying attention to the insane 112th Congress, which apparently believes it has a mandate to cause a new Depression with their massive austerity: we shouldn’t plan on getting any new federal HSR funding until January 2013 at the soonest. That, at least, is my entirely unsurprising [...]
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