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Two of the key architects of the California high speed rail project, Quentin Kopp and Mehdi Morshed, are raising some questions about the California High Speed Rail Authority’s new approach to the project. From KQED: But Kopp and Morshed sound decidedly less enthusiastic these days. They still believe high-speed rail is necessary for the state. [...]

Nov 23rd, 2011 | Filed under Uncategorized

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 [...]

Sep 20th, 2011 | Filed under Uncategorized

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 [...]

Sep 11th, 2011 | Filed under Uncategorized

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 [...]

Aug 14th, 2011 | Filed under Uncategorized