California, now in the midst of a heated debate on high-speed rail, could learn a thing or two from a few small villages in England about consolidating their opposition. Residents from five villages in Oxfordshire created the Villages of Oxfordshire Opposing HS2 (High-Speed Rail 2) action group to voice their concerns about the proposed project. read more »
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60% of GDP Too Much for High Speed Rail: Vietnam National Assembly
by Wendell Cox 07/14/2010
In a surprise move, the Vietnam National Assembly rejected plans proposed by the government to built a high speed rail line from Ho Chi Minh (Saigon) to Hanoi. read more »
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University of California Report Calls Cambridge Systematics High-Speed Rail Ridership Forecast Unreliable
by Wendell Cox 07/01/2010
A just-released report by the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California-Berkeley finds that the ridership projections prepared by Cambridge Systematics (CS) for the California high speed rail system are "not reliable." read more »
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Curbing Euro-Envy
by Wendell Cox 06/12/2010
Times are tough in the newspaper business. For example, The New York Times used to have a robust fact-checking department. Either the staff has been laid off or maybe they can't keep up with the errors, either of which could explain the op-ed piece "Europe Energized." read more »
State Auditor Says Only Part of California High Speed Rail Line May be Built
by Wendell Cox 05/01/2010
The California State Auditor's report title says it all: High-Speed Rail Authority: It Risks Delays or an Incomplete System Because of Inadequate Planning, Weak Oversight, and Lax Contract Management.
The report, which can fairly be characterized as "damning," criticizes the California High Speed Rail Authority on a wide range of issues, some of which go to the very heart of the project itself. read more »
Opposition to High Speed Rail Grows
by Wendell Cox 02/02/2010
The St. Louis Post Dispatch characterizes high speed rail as a “bridge to the 19th century,” in noting its opposition. read more »
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High Speed Rail: Not One Big Happy Family
by Wendell Cox 11/10/2009
California High Speed Rail Commission member Rod Diridon is chafing at all of the competition that has been created by the billions committed by the federal government to high speed rail. read more »
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Why the feds should stay out of high-speed rail (and most transportation)
by Tory Gattis 09/25/2009
Set aside for a minute whether high-speed rail (HSR) makes sense or not on a cost-benefit basis. Regardless of whether it does or not (and some smart people are arguing not), I'd like to make the argument that federal funding has no place in HSR. Instead, it should be left to individual states or regional state coalitions.
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Taiwan’s Failing High Speed Rail Line Faces Government Takeover
by Wendell Cox 09/23/2009
According to Railway Technology, Taiwan’s struggling high speed rail line, the only fully private and commercial high speed rail system in the world, will be taken over by the government his week. The line has been plagued by disappointing ridership levels totaling approximately one-third projected levels. The company has generated insufficient revenues to meet its debt obligations and had previously renegotiated its bank credit to substantially lower interest rates. read more »
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High Speed Rail in Springfield: "The Whole City Would Look Like Crap"
by Wendell Cox 09/21/2009
Not every local official is smitten with the romance of high-speed rail. Graphic evidence of this was provided by Springfield, Illinois mayor Tim Davlin, who expressed his concern that the proposed rail overpasses would slice the city in half. Davlin told the State Journal Register that the “Whole city would look like crap.” This is a problem faced not only by historic Springfield, the state’s capital and location of many Abraham Lincoln sites. read more »
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