Longtime commenter Alon Levy…has a blog! So far there’s only one post up – a critique of one $295 million “HSR” grant for New York, money that was originally intended for Florida – but it’s a good one, and I recommend everyone add the blog to their feed readers. He gets into the [...]
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May 10th, 2011 | Tags: high speed rail, nyc, transit | Category: Uncategorized | 11 comments |
 printable viewThe WaPo earlier this week ran an editorial against California high-speed rail, and on Friday ran a response from Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. As the dedicated anti-California HSR blog High-Speed Train Talk says, the letter does a pretty good job of summing up everything that’s wrong with the guy. The letter starts off [...] January 15th, 2011 | Tags: California, high speed rail, highways, protectionism, Ray LaHood | Category: Uncategorized | 4 comments |
printable viewOne of many reasons why high-speed rail in America is doomed, from Systemic Failure: When DB or Renfe or even SNCF needs to buy a high-speed train, they simply call up Siemens (or Alstom or Talgo) and order some trains. Simple as that. Customization consists of painting a logo on the outside, and [...] December 26th, 2010 | Tags: high speed rail | Category: Uncategorized | 23 comments |
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Doug from Weeds uses the endangered dirt shrew to prevent a church from being built Recently I was reading an article about the death-by-delay of an upzoning proposal near a train station in Boston because the property might have been “considered ‘priority habitat’ for rare species, including the eastern box turtle,” and [...] September 27th, 2010 | Tags: Environment, high speed rail, Stephen Smith, water | Category: Uncategorized | 14 comments |
printable viewby Stephen Smith Yet another way in which Obama’s high-speed rail plans are derailing actual progress in getting Americans out of their cars: BUENA PARK, Calif. — Mayor Art Brown spent years pushing for a commuter train station combined with nearby housing in his community. But as townhouses are being finished around [...] March 15th, 2010 | Tags: high speed rail, Stephen Smith | Category: Transportation | 2 comments |
printable viewby Stephen Smith Just in case you were under the impression that Obama’s high-speed rail commitment was genuine, the Boston Globe would like to disabuse you of that notion: The railroad tracks from Boston to Washington – the busiest rail artery in the nation, and one that also carries America’s only high-speed train, [...] December 23rd, 2009 | Tags: Barack Obama, high speed rail, Stephen Smith | Category: Transportation | 10 comments |
printable viewI probably won’t make any friends today, but now I’ve read one too many urbanist (many who’s ideas I usually respect) use unsound logic to support high speed rail. This argument often includes something like this: “…and furthermore, highways and airports don’t come close to paying for themselves, therefore high speed rail need [...] August 31st, 2009 | Tags: airports, boondoggles, carbon, CATO, construction, cost-benefit analysis, high speed rail, highways, Matthew Yglesias, Randal O'Toole, ryan avent, Transportation, tyler cowen | Category: Economics, Environment, Free-market impostors, infrastructure, Transportation | 18 comments |
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