High-Speed Rail
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Rail Update: HSR and Caltrain
HSR issues $600 million in bonds, plus Caltrain progress report on electrification
March 28, 2019
High-Speed Damage Control Begins
California High-speed Rail Authority assures feds that, despite the bogus headlines, the Governor did not cancel the project
March 6, 2019
Trump Wants California’s High-Speed Rail Money
A legal fight is likely to follow FRA's unprecedented and highly political effort to rescind $3.5 billion from the project.
February 20, 2019
Editorial: My French Teacher and California High-Speed Rail
Reflections on being trapped in a recurring nightmare of misinformation about rail
February 20, 2019
High-Speed Rail’s Central Valley Segment Is Already Connected to Bay Area
HSR trains can immediately through-run to Bay Area and Sacramento on existing tracks
February 15, 2019
No, Mr. President, You Can’t Have California’s High-Speed Rail Money Back
Trump tweets, then Governor Newsom responds, making it clear that high-speed rail is not going away
February 14, 2019
California High-Speed Rail Is Still On
Fatuous headlines abound after Newsom's confusing State of the State speech
February 14, 2019
Newsom Says High-Speed Rail Serving the Central Valley Is Not a “Train to Nowhere”
But he did NOT say he was abandoning the entire project
February 12, 2019
High Speed Rail Will Take People out of Electric Cars?
Latest oil-industry funded editorial reaches new levels of silly
February 8, 2019
Editorial: Stopping High-Speed Rail Would Betray California’s Future
Twenty-five times over budget, years behind schedule, and yet the project was completed... Oh, wait that was a road project
December 19, 2018