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Over the weekend, Darnell Grisby had a very good op-ed in the Merced Sun-Star about the “debate” over high speed rail. In it, he challenged the notion that “the way we travel is a cultural issue”: Dueling ridership forecasts in a political arena heated by cultural antagonism makes it difficult to assess costs and benefits. [...]
Over at the Mountain View Patch, Jarrett Mullen writes about the viaduct in the room – and the contradictions at the heart of the “blended” proposal for the Caltrain/HSR rail corridor. Mullen talks about the Prop 1A requirement for connecting SF to LA in 2 hours, 40 minutes, requiring trains to travel at 125mph along [...]
Assemblymember Cathleen Galgiani today called out her fellow Democrat, Senator Joe Simitian, who has emerged this week as a significant threat to the high speed rail project. In a statement released this afternoon she accused Simitian of being the “Great Train Robber” for his apparent effort to take HSR money for Caltrain, risking the HSR [...]
It’s refreshing when HSR critics stop beating about the bush and just come right out and say what we all know they really believe. So I give credit to Atherton mayor Jim Dobbie for telling the truth in this Wall Street Journal article: “We have many houses close to the railroad in the multiple millions [...]
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