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Today’s New York Times offers a closer look at Spain’s HSR success, with a reporter filing her story from the AVE: Two years ago, nearly 90 percent of the six million people traveling between Madrid and Barcelona went by air. But early this year the number of train travelers on the route surpassed fliers. The [...]
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 [...]
Getting some things squared away before my winter break begins. Posting the next two weeks will be a bit light, as I’ll be taking the Coast Starlight up to Washington State and back. I hope to include a trip on Seattle’s new light rail line, which opened in July (and a link to Sea-Tac Airport [...]
The Brookings Institution has released a report today showing that the nation’s busiest air routes are growing more congested over time, a condition almost certain to worsen once the economy recovers. And the second busiest corridor in the entire nation is Los Angeles to San Francisco (second only two Miami/Ft. Lauderdale to New York), with [...]
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