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One of the common anti-high speed rail arguments is that nobody will ride trains because they can fly cheaply between cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles. Since at least 2008 we’ve known these cheap fares weren’t going to last long. This week brings more evidence that cheap flights are becoming an endangered species, in [...]
The concept of a Legislative Analyst Office is a good one. The state legislature ought to have a neutral, independent, non-partisan research bureau that is devoted to giving legislators facts and insight as they make important decisions. But that concept falls apart if the LAO provides bad analysis, and especially if it abandons its neutrality [...]
Two of the key architects of the California high speed rail project, Quentin Kopp and Mehdi Morshed, are raising some questions about the California High Speed Rail Authority’s new approach to the project. From KQED: But Kopp and Morshed sound decidedly less enthusiastic these days. They still believe high-speed rail is necessary for the state. [...]
In a move that should not surprise anybody at all, several Peninsula lawyers are helping Kings County file a rather silly lawsuit against the high speed rail project: Kings County filed a lawsuit Monday against the California High Speed Rail Authority that calls for a permanent injunction against distributing funds from Prop 1A to the [...]
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