As with any major infrastructure project, the question of cost is an important one. And so the San Jose Mercury News on Sunday examined the issue of HSR costs in a front-page article. The article, by Mike Rosenberg and Gary Richards, has some good points about HSR, but overall seems to repeat the common flaw [...]

Dan Walters, a Sacramento Bee columnist whose opposition to high speed rail has been consistent, took a look yesterday at the HSR poll released by the California High Speed Rail Authority and found it wanting:
In other words, as the authority’s deputy director Jeffrey Barker put it to reporters Tuesday, the train would be “a cheaper [...]

The city of Orange is a wonderful town in the middle of Orange County. Their downtown area, oriented around the Orange Circle and just two blocks from the Orange Metrolink station, is a fantastic place to stroll and shop. Chapman University is just a couple blocks away too, and it’s a thriving hub for students [...]

Earlier this week Bill Lockyer told the San Diego Union-Tribune that investment bankers on Wall Street are skeptical of California’s high speed rail project. Unfortunately, Lockyer has offered neither evidence nor details of these statements, so we can’t really respond to them directly. (That’s not to say Lockyer is making it up, I’m sure he [...]