Over the weekend, E.J. Schultz at the Fresno Bee took a look private funding for the HSR project – or the lack thereof. To those of you who have been following this blog since at least June 2008, you should not be surprised that private funders haven’t yet jumped into the project – and I’ll [...]

A few weeks back, a group of political and business leaders from the East Bay traveled to China for economic development meetings. One common topic was the NUMMI auto manufacturing plant in Fremont that closed last month – which relates to another of the topics discussed, high speed rail: China has expressed great enthusiasm for [...]

Yesterday we took a look at the debate over private funding for HSR, and determined that while there are serious issues to consider with how private funding is used, there doesn’t seem to be any real doubt that private funding would indeed materialize. That hasn’t stopped HSR deniers from peddling their misinformation to the media, [...]

In recent days there’s been a spate of articles discussing private funding for high speed rail. Some of these articles have been valuable, but only when they’re written by people with an actual understanding of high speed rail around the world. The other articles, produced by members of the California news media or by right-wing [...]