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With just over a week until the votes are counted we are about to learn whether California will embrace the 21st century or go down with the sinking 20th century ship. Proposition 1A and high speed rail are a cornerstone of California’s efforts to build prosperity for the 21st century. The infrastructure that built 20th [...]
The LA Times is running a “dust up” in its opinion pages – a weeklong discussion of high speed rail between Adrian Moore of the oil company funded Reason Foundation and Dan Tempelis, project manager for the CHSRA on the Palmdale-LA section of the route. It’s something of an unfair fight, as Moore is trained [...]
Michael Cabanatuan’s article on Prop 1A in today’s San Francisco Chronicle is one of the best articles I’ve seen from the media on high speed rail – partly because he doesn’t just play the “he said, she said” game where someone from the oil company funded Reason Foundation spouts off a bunch of numbers and [...]
In the comments to Thursday’s post we saw an old claim get revived – that somehow Prop 1A and HSR would induce sprawl. The entire argument is absurd. If you were concerned about sprawl in the first place, you’re likely to also understand the need to reduce carbon emissions, reduce pollution, and wean California off [...]
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