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Over at Atlantic Cities, Nate Berg notices a phenomenon that this blog has been describing for several years now: that NIMBYism skews older whereas younger people are much more supportive of new development: The latest annual report from the Saint Consulting group pinpoints who those people are: Not surprisingly, older people tend to be most [...]
This just gets more depressing. Richard White, a renowned historian at Stanford University, made a flawed attack on the high speed rail project last spring that had a series of errors and was rooted in flawed evidence. Unfortunately, White has continued to press his attack, this time in a post at Zócalo Public Square titled [...]
This should come as no surprise, but Peninsula NIMBYs and high speed rail opponents are starting to organize in the Central Valley, hoping to block a project they don’t want in their own backyards by going where the action is: A group of Kings County citizens opposed to the state’s high-speed rail project are hosting [...]
Every once in a while you see a newspaper that actually does a decent job of reporting the status of and politics around the California high speed rail project. Today’s example is a feature story in this week’s Sacramento News & Review titled “Track to the Future: 20 Questions on California high-speed rail.” It gives [...]
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