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OK, OK, the headline for this post is something of a tease. Today China began service on the world’s longest HSR line, running nearly 2,300 kilometers from Beijing to Guangzhou: Two trains departed from stations in Beijing and Guangzhou at 9 a.m. and 10 a.m., respectively, to mark the opening of the 2,298-km line. Running [...]
In a powerful op-ed in today’s Sacramento Bee, the mayors of some of California’s largest cities – Los Angeles, San Francisco, San José, Sacramento and Fresno called on the Legislature to fund high speed rail in 2012: We are all strong supporters of building the California High-Speed Rail system, and our state has arrived at [...]
High speed rail critics’ most consistent line of attack on the project is that of cost. “It’s too expensive, costs are rising too far and too fast,” they tend to say. (See Kevin Drum’s recent post for a good example of this thinking.) And that argument rests on the assumption that we have just two [...]
Every once in a while you see a newspaper that actually does a decent job of reporting the status of and politics around the California high speed rail project. Today’s example is a feature story in this week’s Sacramento News & Review titled “Track to the Future: 20 Questions on California high-speed rail.” It gives [...]
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