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Back to homepageBridge debacle foreshadows bullet train mega-debacle
May 22, 2013 By Chris Reed Mankind has been building bridges for more than 3,000 years. A bridge built in the 13th century BC in Greece is still in use. Building durable bridges over water is not a modern accomplishment.
Read MoreHouse GOP whip: Folly to expect fed $ for bullet train
April 12, 2013 By Chris Reed There’s a double-whammy targeting the bullet train on the op-ed page of Friday’s U-T San Diego newspaper. First House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, R-Bakersfield, tees off on the state’s assumption that federal dollars will
Read MoreIs there ever any positive news about the bullet train?
April 4, 2013 By Chris Reed Is there ever any hard, legit good news about the California High-Speed Rail Authority’s plan to build a state bullet-train network? The stories last week about the U.S. Government Accountability Office depicting CHSRA’s ridership
Read MoreBullet train: Is L.A. Times’ beat reporter ashamed of edit page?
March 28, 2013 By Chris Reed There’s been quite a bit of good reporting done on the bullet-train fiasco. Mike Rosenberg of the San Jose Mercury-News and Lance Williams of California Watch jump to mind. But Ralph Vartabedian of the
Read MoreGood and bad news on bullet train(s) front
March 24, 2013 By Chris Reed As I wrote last week, the budget that Senate Democrats have embraced contains so little discretionary funding for California’s bullet-train project that it is impossible to see how the $68 billion project ever gets
Read MoreDid the bullet train die in sequester fallout? Maybe. (Hallelujah!)
March 10, 2013 By Chris Reed The fallout of the sequester continues to be widely discussed, with the conventional wisdom being that President Barack Obama and his political team made a rare and serious miscalculation with their attempts to panic
Read MoreIn Spain, bullet train a symbol of government insanity
March 3, 2013 By Chris Reed The Feb. 25 New Yorker magazine had a strikingly downbeat account of the economic hellhole that is Spain. Unemployment is 25 percent — and double that for young adults. One-quarter of the budget is
Read MoreMost East Coast media misjudge CA bullet train
Feb. 19, 2013 By Chris Reed The immense perception gap between East Coast and West Coast journalists when it comes to reporting on the Golden State was never in sharper relief than in 2003. If you were in California, the
Read MoreBullet-train boondoggle yields a Cabinet-level delusion
Dec. 9, 2012 By Chris Reed A House committee hearing Thursday at which Republicans vowed to use their majority to block new federal funding for California’s bullet-train train wreck produced this astounding passage in The Washington Post: “We’re not giving
Read MoreBullet-train propaganda: China-style vs. California-style
Oct. 22, 2012 By Chris Reed Last week’s New Yorker features a well-reported but conflicted article that tries to depict China’s all-out push to become the world leader in bullet trains as a vast fiasco of corruption, incompetence and hubris
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