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President Obama Proposes $5 Billion A Year for HSR

In his 2015 fiscal year budget President Barack Obama has proposed spending $5 billion a year on high speed rail projects: In addition, the White House would like to set aside $19 billion specifically...

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Latest Republican Effort to Defund HSR Fails

Assembly Republicans keep trying to defund the California high speed rail project – and they keep failing: The Assembly Transportation Committee turned down a bill by Assembly Member Jim Patterson to...

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CHSRA Solicits Five Bids for HSR Construction South of Fresno

The California High Speed Rail Authority is issuing a request for proposals to five bidding consortiums who met the prequalification requirements. According to the Fresno Bee they include the winner of...

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Darrell Steinberg Supports Using Cap-and-Trade Funds for HSR

State Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg today announced a new proposal to guide the use of California’s cap-and-trade revenues. It includes earmarking 20% of those revenues for the high speed...

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House Republicans Remind America They Hate Passenger Rail

House Republicans have proposed a new spending plan that cuts $200 million from federal transit spending – cuts that would undermine Los Angeles rail expansion plans as well as California high speed...

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California Legislature on Verge of Securing HSR’s Future

For five and a half years now, since California voters passed Prop 1A, the California High Speed Rail Authority has been searching for the rest of the money they needed to build the project. In 2009 it...

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Bad Political Analysis Makes for Bad HSR Criticism

James Fallows’s series on California High Speed Rail continues at the Atlantic, where he offers this effort to fairly summarize the critics’ case against the project. Here’s what he sees as the top...

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As Expected, Private Investors Showing Interest in CA HSR

A common criticism leveled against the California high speed rail project is that private investors haven’t committed anything to the project. That’s always been a flawed argument. This blog has...

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Jeff Denham Trots Out the Circular Logic Again

It’s really unfortunate that more members of the media don’t call out people like Jeff Denham when they make misleading statements like this: Rep. Jeff Denham (R-Calif.) said that if California can’t...

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California Could Earn More Than $40 Billion in Profit From HSR

Shane Phillips has a very interesting post up at Better Institutions that takes a detailed look at the direct fiscal benefits of high speed rail, and concludes that California could make more than $40...

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The CHSRA Can’t Fund HSR All By Itself

The Los Angeles Times has a new editorial asking Who is going to pay for the bullet train to LA? That’s a reasonable question to ask. But why is it that only the California High Speed Rail Authority...

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Foreign Investors Look at US HSR Projects

The Fiscal Times has a good analysis of the prospects for foreign investment in US high speed rail projects. The article starts by quoting staffers on private HSR projects who claim they’re a better...

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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...

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HSR Funds To Fix CA’s Most Hazardous Rail Crossing

The California Public Utilities Commission has rated the railroad crossing of Rosecrans and Marquardt streets in Santa Fe Springs as the “most hazardous” in the entire state. As the video below...

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CHSRA Approves Major Prop 1A Bond Sale

At yesterday’s board meeting the California High Speed Rail Authority voted to authorize $3.2 billion for tracks from Fresno to Madera, and for Caltrain electrification: The high-speed rail board...

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