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When Florida Governor Rick Scott rejected $2.4 billion in federal high speed rail funding, it set up the possibility that California could reap a big windfall that helps us build out our HSR project. And so we have. Today Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced California will get $300 million of that money: California – Central [...]
I wanted to like this editorial in today’s New York Times. It starts off so well: The agreement between Congress and the White House to virtually eliminate money for high-speed rail is harebrained. France, China, Brazil, even Russia, understand that high-speed rail is central to future development. Not Washington. It’s a great defense of high [...]
Via Daily Kos today, two recent stories indicate that some Congressional Republican leaders will back high speed rail: Rep. John L. Mica (FL-07), the Republican Leader of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, and Rep. Bill Shuster (PA-09) on the Railroads, Pipelines and Hazardous Materials Subcommittee, voiced support for extending high-speed rail but cautioned that [...]
In a New York Times op-ed today, Christian Wolmar argues for focusing national HSR efforts on the Northeast Corridor, upgrading the Acela as a demonstration of HSR’s value: Yet the $8 billion set aside for high-speed rail in his 2009 stimulus package, split among 31 states, includes only two genuine high-speed rail projects — in [...]
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