Trump Is No Friend of HSR
George Skelton wonders this week if Donald Trump might be the best hope for California high speed rail: Clinton — endorsed by Brown before the California primary — also supports high-speed rail. But as...
View ArticleI’m Thankful for California Voters
The votes are in – most of them, anyway – and Californians have delivered some big, if indirect, victories for high speed rail. Let’s review: • Prop 53 goes down to defeat. Prop 53 fell behind on...
View ArticleHSR Opponents Seize on Federal Report to Slam Project
It’s a movie we’ve seen several times before. A government agency issues a report warning that it’s possible there could be big cost overruns on the high speed rail project. (In other news, water is...
View ArticleDon’t Misread Republicans: They Hate Rail, Not Just HSR
There’s a belief some credulous sources have that when California Congressional Republicans got the Trump Administration to screw Caltrain electrification that this was really an attack on high speed...
View ArticleThe Hyperloop Has Fans in the White House
This was a sad yet unsurprising thing to see come out of this morning’s CEO summit at the Trump White House: White House NEC director Gary Cohn says @elonmusk thinks we "can tunnel the entire United...
View ArticleDid Newsom Create the Problem He Was Trying To Avoid?
I have an op-ed published in the San Diego Union-Tribune about the HSR project, titled Why California’s bullet train should not stall. It was commissioned right before the State of the State address,...
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