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By now it’s become clear that, despite his public claims, Senator Alan Lowenthal is not really a high speed rail supporter. He consistently undermines the project in the press with his misleading and baseless claims that HSR ridership stats “don’t pass the smell test” (a reference to his apparent belief that nobody will ever ride [...]
Over at Wired’s Autopia blog, Chuck Squatriglia has an excellent takedown of Hoover Institution fellow Liam Julian’s HSR denier article that was excerpted in the San Francisco Chronicle earlier this month. This blog offered our own criticism of Julian, but there’s plenty of room on this train for more folks to tear into misinformation, so [...]
When I hoped that more California news outlets would produce insightful and factually-based assessments of the HSR project, today’s LA Times article was not what I had in mind. It is a sad example of the American media’s tendency to report the controversy instead of reporting the facts. Too many journalists seem to believe that [...]
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