Posts Tagged ‘California High-Speed Rail Authority’Rail Series: Surmounting the Tehachapi BarrierMonday, December 17th, 2012 This is Part 5 of a series on Medium-Speed rail alternatives to California’s High-Speed Rail project. Click to read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 and Part 6. Dec. 17, 2012 By Stan Brin Now comes the hard part. As Ned Ryerson, that great observer of infrastructure compl... Rail Series: Medium-speed train tracking costs less than high-speed railFriday, December 14th, 2012 This is Part 4 of a series on Medium-Speed rail alternatives to California’s High-Speed Rail project. Click to read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 and Part 6. Dec. 14, 2012 By Stan Brin How much does it cost to lay an additional pair of tracks beside an existing line? ... Rail series: Single-track bottleneck slows CA trainsThursday, December 13th, 2012 This is Part 3 of a series on Medium-Speed rail alternatives to California’s High-Speed Rail project. Click to read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 and Part 6. Dec. 13, 2012 By Stan Brin So why are California’s trains so sluggish? Aside from political inertia, the... Rail series: A capitalist solution for California train travelWednesday, December 12th, 2012 This is Part 2 of a series. Click to read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 and Part 6. Dec. 12, 2012 By Stan Brin Before I go any further, I would like readers to understand that this proposal is strictly a real-world alternative to High-Speed Rail. It isn’t intended to chal... Rail series: Medium-Speed Rail runs over High-Speed RailMonday, December 10th, 2012 This is Part 1 of a series on Medium-Speed rail alternatives to California's High-Speed Rail project. Click to read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 and Part 6. Dec. 10, 2012 By Stan Brin By now, everyone in California knows the voter-mandated High-Speed Rail project is a boon... Brown, Dem Leg ignore aftermathMonday, September 10th, 2012 Sept. 10, 2012 By Katy Grimes What could anyone say to California's Democratic lawmakers to make them stop destroying the state? Faced with 700 new bills of potential laws and regulations on his desk, Gov. Jerry Brown can be part of the problem, or part of the solution. Brown likes to re... |