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Another day, another expansion of the French TGV system. In this case French President Nicolas Sarkozy was on hand for the opening of the first section of LGV Rhin-Rhône, connecting Mulhouse to Lyon and helping improve high speed links between France, southern Germany, and Switzerland. The section that opened today is not the entire LGV [...]
One of the effects of turning something into a culture war is it tends to undermine support for the idea in question by sending the more timid elements in search of a compromise solution. Some people seek compromise over the best, smartest, most sensible solution, and it is these people who are the true target [...]
A common argument leveled against high speed rail by HSR deniers is that it can’t work in the US outside the Northeast Corridor because we are a nation of suburban sprawl, and since the proposed routes lack density, they’re not good candidates for HSR. Arguments like these are reasons why we use the label “HSR [...]
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 [...]
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