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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 [...]
Once a TV show has been running for a while, producers sometimes get lazy and decide to phone in an episode in by putting together a bunch of clips from previous episodes. Apparently that happens in journalism too. Instead of breaking new ground in examining the California high speed rail project, California Watch and the [...]
Sadly, the United States isn’t the only country that’s seeing an insane rush toward austeirty threatening the kind of investments that are needed to produce long-term economic growth. In Portugal, a long-planned high speed rail link from Lisbon to Madrid will likely be cancelled by the new right-wing government: In April, when Portugal sought the [...]
One of the common arguments against high speed rail in California is that the state doesn’t have enough population or population density to support high speed trains. This stems from a flawed application of common arguments about urban rail systems, where you usually do want to route light rail, streetcars, and subways along dense corridors, [...]
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