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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 [...]
Submitted one day early, the 2009 California High Speed Rail Business Plan is now available to the public. It is 145 pages long, but there are two basic points that you’re almost certainly going to hear about over the coming hours and days: 1. The estimated cost to build Phase I of the project is [...]
We haven’t yet seen this story appear as a talking point that widely in California or even among our HSR deniers in the comments, but we will soon. The Taiwanese government is going to have to bail out the private operator of the Taiwan HSR project. They have missed ridership projections and as a result [...]
At last week’s California High Speed Rail Authority board meeting a project workshop was held to lay out the CHSRA’s current approach to project planning, and to lay out what some of the next key steps are. The powerpoint presentation used at the workshop is now available online (PPT file, 91 slides, 6.1MB). The primary [...]
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