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Back to homepageBest chroniclers of bullet-train follies miss obvious angle on self-driving cars
Sept. 26, 2012 By Chris Reed Mike Rosenberg of the San Jose Mercury-News — the newspaper reporter and the California newspaper who/that have done by far the best job of straight-forwardly illustrating the lunacy of the high-speed rail project —
Read MoreThe California train to nowhere
Sept. 18, 2012 By B. Wayne Hughes Jr. This past July, the California Legislature approved starting construction on the first 130 miles of the much hyped high-speed rail from San Francisco to Anaheim. That’s an ante of $8 billion just
Read MoreWill Gov. Brown kill self-driving cars as threat to bullet train?
Sept. 13 By Chris Reed Gov. Jerry Brown gave another hallucinatory endorsement to the bullet-train project in a weekend interview on CNN, depicting the plan as necessary for California’s future. But the growing, glowing reports about the incredible promise offered by
Read MoreTrophy train project, legacy for lawmakers
July 9, 2012 By Katy Grimes SACRAMENTO — After listening to two days last week of floor debate in the California Assembly and Senate, it became painfully obvious that the vote on the state’s high-speed train was nothing more than
Read MoreHigh-speed gravy train approved in Assembly and Senate
July 6, 2012 By Katy Grimes UPDATE: 4:45 p.m. SACRAMENTO — The Senate barely eked out passage of the high-speed rail bill, after a very close vote, 21-16. The vote approves the sale of $4.7 billion in bonds to begin building
Read MoreCalifornia High-Speed Rail crashing into reality
June 27, 2012 By Josephine Djuhana Gov. Jerry Brown, alongside a number of lawmakers, continues the push to build the nation’s first high-speed rail, despite a hefty price tag as high as $98 billion, an immediate negative environmental impact, and
Read More‘No justification to build’ high-speed rail
April 18, 2012 By Katy Grimes The official recommendation is out from the Legislative Analyst’s Office – High-speed rail should not be built. Duh. That’s not a “duh” to the LAO; that’s a “duh” to all of the supporters and
Read MoreNew High-Speed Rail biz plan crashes into reality
April 14, 2012 By Katy Grimes What a train wreck. Barreling down the tracks in one direction, on April 9 a congressional committee launched a probe California’s high-speed rail project over charges of conflicts of interest and questionable spending of federal dollars.
Read MoreSen. Feinstein cheers Gov. Brown’s High-Speed Rail plan
April 12, 2012 By Brian Calle It does not come as a big surprise that Democratic Sen. Diane Feinstein supports Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown’s revised plan for the boondoggle High-Speed Rail project that would cost taxpayers billions of dollars. What
Read MoreGreenhut dissects High-Speed Rail boondoggle
April 9, 2012 By John Seiler Writing on Bloomberg, our Contributing Editor Steven Greenhut dissects the latest shenanigans in the High-Speed Rail boondoggle. An excerpt: The California High-Speed Rail Authority has a serious public-relations hurdle: how to sell its proposed
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