high-speed rail

California Itching to Lose a Decade 0
- July 9, 2012
Last week, the California legislature voted to destroy the state’s economy for another decade. The 21 senators who voted for the measure told the public they were approving a high-speed train from Los Angeles to San Francisco, but everyone knows they barely have enough money to build from Fresno to Bakersfield. In voting to borrow […]
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Clinically Dead 0
- June 26, 2012
California’s high-speed rail project seems to be dead. At least, that’s the conclusion of a Washington DC writer commenting on a report that Governor Brown has given up on the idea of exempting high-speed rail from environmental reviews. Without that exemption, the writer thinks, the state will never be able to build the line. However, […]
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Antiques or Obsolete?0
- June 20, 2012
Someone made a little poster designed to convey the value of high-speed rail. I made a couple of modifications that I think improve it quite a bit.
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CNN Does a Number on HSR Numbers 0
- May 31, 2012
CNN reports that the cost of California high-speed rail has tripled, and it correctly points out that federal taxpayers will be expected to pay for most of it. While this is a somewhat belated report, it is nice to see this boondoggle get the attention it deserves. CNN gets some numbers wrong; as the Antiplanner […]
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California Is Dying 0
- May 22, 2012
The Obama administration has announced that it wants to spend a half-billion dollars buying high-speed rail cars in an obvious bid to create more businesses beholden to the administration as well as to its rail program. But more and more people are turning against the president’s dream of being the Eisenhower of high-speed rail. The […]
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Obama Plays Hardball with California 0
- May 16, 2012
The Obama administration is threatening to take back the $3.3 billion high-speed rail grant to California if the state legislature fails to approve the state’s high-speed rail plan by the end of June. Legislators had planned to hold some hearings this summer so they could base their decisions on actual facts rather than politics. Ironically, […]
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