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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 [...]
The population of Uzbekistan is 27 million. Its GDP is $85 billion, or about $3,000 per person. The population of the United States is 310 million. Its GDP is over $14 trillion (world’s largest), or about $47,000 per person. Which country just opened a 150mph high speed rail line connecting two of its main cities? [...]
Note: see updates below for more info about who does – and doesn’t – support terminating at Transbay. It’s been a busy few days, but it’s time to go over the events of last Thursday, where a California High Speed Rail Authority board meeting and a State Senate hearing on the project both created a [...]
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