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As the United Kingdom debates building a high speed rail line from London to Manchester and Leeds, there’s a lot of discussion there that will sound familiar to Californian ears. Critics argue that the costs are too high and that the money could be better spent on something else. Supporters, including the coalition government currently [...]
The main purpose of any transportation project is to help people get to where they want to go. Cost should be a subsidiary factor in the planning of any transportation project. Unfortunately, in the 30 years since right-wing ideology became politically ascendant, keeping costs down so that rich people didn’t have to pay higher taxes [...]
Yesterday Governor Jerry Brown spoke to the San Jose Mercury News editorial board about his tax proposal, Proposition 30. The interview included a discussion of high speed rail, which begins at 16:34 of the video below and lasts until 27:22: This is also worth watching to see how utterly clueless and ignorant of the facts [...]
I really like the first half of this post at Christian Science Monitor by Andrew Holland explaining why California and the Northeast need high speed rail. He clearly understands that HSR’s costs have to be assessed in context: When opponents talk about the high costs of high speed rail (and they are high), they are [...]
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