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Anyone attend the RailPAC/NARP Steel Wheels in California event today in Los Angeles? If so, add your report here!
One of the more common arguments against HSR is that “nobody will take a train when they can get from SF to LA faster by flying on Southwest for $49.” There are numerous flaws with that argument, including the fact that you can rarely get a $49 fare on short notice, and the fact that [...]
There is a longstanding double standard in California infrastructure planning. Freeway widening projects are simply accepted, even though their costs are enormous, even though they usually fail to improve travel conditions, and even though they have significant impacts on communities. I’ve argued before that in the case I’m most familiar with, the widening of Interstate [...]
Mark Reutter has a fantastic article up at Progressive Fix about the history of high speed rail – and how HSR was made in America. Before government subsidies shifted toward freeways and airplanes, the US was the global leader in high speed rail innovation. After the mid-1950s, the US gave up that lead, but its [...]
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