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The California High Speed Rail Authority wasted no time in quickly responding to the critical Peer Review Report: CA High Speed Rail Authority Responds to Peer Review Their core conclusions: In recommending against proceeding with the high speed rail development “at this time,” the Report ignores many components of the CHRSA’s recent Draft Business Plan [...]

Jan 4th, 2012 | Filed under Uncategorized

At the end of a tumultuous year for high speed rail in California, opponents are increasingly confident they can kill the project and retard California’s hopes of economic recovery and energy independence. But a review of the year about to end shows that the most important factor in shaping high speed rail’s fate hasn’t been [...]

Dec 31st, 2011 | Filed under Uncategorized

I have no idea why the LA Times thought it would be a good idea to put Ralph Vartabedian on the high speed rail beat, but the results have been disastrous. The guy has no clue how the project actually works and almost certainly has never actually used a high speed train in his life. [...]

Dec 14th, 2011 | Filed under Uncategorized

So the latest Field Poll is out and it does not provide comforting numbers for the high speed rail project. But before we look at the numbers, we need to look at how the question is asked. Field is the gold standard of public opinion research in California, and their numbers usually turn out right. [...]

Dec 6th, 2011 | Filed under Uncategorized