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High Speed Rail Archive
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Another Billion Dollar Boondoggle–
Posted on November 10, 2011 | 6 CommentsVoters beware the Salesmen who come with hat in hand, pitching shiny or miraculous services and benefits for a bargain bottom price and the promise of a profit–Your Wallets and... -
Are Caltrain’s budget problems a snapshot of CA HSR?
Posted on April 25, 2011 | 8 CommentsHSRA and high speed rail advocates fail to be realistic in their quest to ride the rails on the backs of other taxpayers. I’ve made our points on the flaws... -
OC Legislator Follies: Harkey, High-speed Rail & Genocide; doomed Minuteman legislation and Mansoor comatose?
Posted on April 10, 2011 | 15 Comments. .. . Callin’ em like she sees ‘em: Diane Harkey. Hold on a second. If indeed Orange County’s major export to Washington and Sacramento consists of dunderheads, jackanapes, and... -
CA HSRA plan violates Prop 1A Phase I corridor
Posted on March 31, 2011 | 6 CommentsAs HSRA Chairman Curt Pringle and his HSRA Board vote to pursue Florida’s rejected high-speed rail funding I must remind readers that Prop 1A, as detailed in the... -
Southern CA voters should demand a stop to HSR now
Posted on March 28, 2011 | 7 Comments. . . Our northern neighbors are taking an initiative that we should emulate in CA. Specifically they are concerned about a cost overrun on the deep bore tunnel in... -
While “special interests” promote CA HSR our bridge infrastructure is crumbling
Posted on March 23, 2011 | 7 Comments. . . While both our state and federal budgets are going over a financial cliff there are still those “special interests” who have blinders on as they can only see... -
Opponents of CA HSR gaining national momentum
Posted on March 10, 2011 | 3 Comments. . . Promoting sound expenditure of taxpayer funds is a full time job. Case in point is the effort to curtail wasting billions of dollars for a high-speed train in CA... -
Rep Kevin McCarthy joins CA Assembly Member Diane Harkey in opposing HSR
Posted on March 9, 2011 | 2 Comments. . . . . ROAD BLOCK AHEAD! In addressing high-speed rail, Fred Barnes of the Weekly Standard has just quoted CA Rep Kevin McCarthy claiming he is: “the first publicly... -
California’s Hemorrhaging Debt does not faze our High Speed Rail Authority.
Posted on March 6, 2011 | 6 Comments. . . . . Today’s San Francisco Chronicle sounds the same alarm that some of us have been shouting for almost two years as we oppose the under funded high-speed... -
Reason Foundation: Florida rejects $2.4 billion High Speed Rail funds, so they’ll just get spent elsewhere.
Posted on March 4, 2011 | 2 Comments. . . Florida Rejects High-Speed Rail Money – Again, So LaHood Will Just Spend Elsewhere Robert Poole | March 4, 2011 Florida Gov. Rick Scott made the right decision... -
What’s the fate of HR 1, eliminating High Speed Rail funding?
Posted on February 24, 2011 | No CommentsOn February 19th the 112th Congress of the U.S. House of Representatives, by a vote of 235-189, passed HR 1. HR 1 is the $1.2 trillion dollar appropriations package required... -
Recent update from High Speed Rail CEO Roelof van Ark
Posted on February 23, 2011 | 2 CommentsExpecting to address the Glendale Redevelopment Agency on behalf of a local property owner yesterday afternoon I did not attend the public meeting on transportation held at UC Merced in... -
Another governor rejects high-speed rail stimulus funding
Posted on February 17, 2011 | 16 Comments. . . Seventy years ago this Oct. Sir Winston Churchill spoke these famous words which apply to my opposition to CA HSR today. “Never give in. Never give in. Never,... -
Full Speed Ahead with California’s High Speed Rail! – POLL ADDED.
Posted on February 11, 2011 | 59 Comments. . . Sorry Brother Larry. Sorry Brother Tony. California’s High Speed Rail is looking like an implacable force. Apparently we now have 2/3 of the funding we need –...
