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The following photo was sent to me by Aron Hegyi. It’s of a Siemens ad up at SFO, touting high speed rail: This is part of a broader marketing campaign that includes TV ads and a website, as well as this YouTube video on the recent US Conference of Mayors report. It’s good to see [...]
Last Saturday RailPAC held what was a fantastic event at MTA headquarters in Los Angeles, bringing together rail advocates from across the state and even the nation to speak about the future of passenger rail in California, with an emphasis on high speed rail. I was only able to attend the morning session, but found [...]
In what is a natural follow-up to the post on the 2009 Business Plan revision from earlier this week, which after all is intended to entice private investment, the San Jose Mercury News is reporting on China’s interest in funding California high speed rail: As California’s High Speed Rail Authority meets in San Jose today [...]
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 [...]
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