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San Francisco Chronicle architecture columnist John King writes today of an ambitious state planning project known as Vision California. The project is intended to provide a holistic, statewide model of growth scenarios, with an emphasis on how high speed rail will change the state’s growth and land use patterns. It is co-funded by the California [...]
So this is an odd article (from the California Farm Bureau): As the state’s High-Speed Rail Authority plans an 800-mile high-speed rail system that will help alleviate congestion on roadways and transport passengers from San Francisco to Los Angeles in a little over two and a half hours, California’s agricultural landscape is likely to change [...]
Over at The Atlantic, economic geographer Richard Florida has been writing about the economic impact of high speed rail. He believes HSR is a centerpiece of the long-term shift in America’s economy – specifically in where economic activity is going to be concentrated. In a March 2009 article he argued that “mega-regions” would emerge from [...]
On Monday the Ventura County Star ran a good article on high speed rail. That prompted on Daniel Goldberg, who writes a blog for the VC Star’s website, to write one of the silliest pieces of HSR denial I’ve ever seen. Even though it’s absurd on its face, it’s worth deconstructing these arguments which are [...]
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