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Over at Streetsblog Capitol Hill, Angie Schmitt has a great article with an even greater title: What Boondoggle? Private Sector Wants in on HSR Action. Schmitt has some great quotes here that demonstrate not only that the private sector sees HSR as a solid option and rejects utterly the right-wing fantasy that it is somehow [...]

Mar 12th, 2011 | Filed under Uncategorized

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 [...]

Aug 2nd, 2010 | Filed under Uncategorized

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 [...]

Apr 28th, 2010 | Filed under Uncategorized

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, [...]

Apr 5th, 2010 | Filed under Uncategorized