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Harvard economist Ed Glaeser posted the second in his HSR evaluation series for the New York Times’ Economix Blog yesterday. There are several problems with his study, particularly his choice of Dallas-Houston as his example to assess HSR costs. Matthew Yglesias criticized this pick as being unrepresentative and not even being part of the official [...]
Aug 5th, 2009 | Filed under Uncategorized
So says BNSF CEO Matthew K. Rose: An estimated $13 billion in new federal money for high-speed passenger rail service should go to a single project that demonstrates its effectiveness, the top executive of freight railroad Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. (BNI) said Thursday. “I’m concerned (the money) will be spread like peanut butter” nationwide [...]
May 22nd, 2009 | Filed under Uncategorized
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