Comments on: High-Speed Rail on the Ballot in California http://goodspeedupdate.com/2008/2262 Rob Goodspeed's blog Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:48:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Watching the Results Online - The Goodspeed Update http://goodspeedupdate.com/2008/2262/comment-page-1#comment-323587 Watching the Results Online - The Goodspeed Update Wed, 05 Nov 2008 03:05:44 +0000 http://goodspeedupdate.com/2008/2262#comment-323587 [...] million calls. Today. 9:57 PM: The Overhead Wire is blogging the transit results. The big kahuna is California’s $10 billion rail bond. 2 [...] [...] million calls. Today. 9:57 PM: The Overhead Wire is blogging the transit results. The big kahuna is California’s $10 billion rail bond. 2 [...]

]]> By: David Holman http://goodspeedupdate.com/2008/2262/comment-page-1#comment-308430 David Holman Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:58:26 +0000 http://goodspeedupdate.com/2008/2262#comment-308430 Fantastic news! Finally the US is waking up out of our 50 year anti-rail slumber to realize how far behind Europe and Asia we are in terms of cost effective and fast rail transportation. Warren Buffet has been investing heavily in rail in the past 2 years and it looks like CA will once again lead the nation along the right course. If you believe in global warming, then rail makes sense because the same kind of efficiency in airplanes is probably 50 years off at least. Fantastic news! Finally the US is waking up out of our 50 year anti-rail slumber to realize how far behind Europe and Asia we are in terms of cost effective and fast rail transportation. Warren Buffet has been investing heavily in rail in the past 2 years and it looks like CA will once again lead the nation along the right course. If you believe in global warming, then rail makes sense because the same kind of efficiency in airplanes is probably 50 years off at least.

]]> By: Richard Rider http://goodspeedupdate.com/2008/2262/comment-page-1#comment-300239 Richard Rider Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:41:12 +0000 http://goodspeedupdate.com/2008/2262#comment-300239 For a detailed, devastating debunking of this incredible HSR boondoggle -- a.k.a. Prop 1A -- go to the 196 page study of this issue just released in September, 2008 by the Reason Foundation: www.reason.org/ps370/ Fortunately at this same web page you'll find a readable summation of the study. If that's not enough, go to www.ti.org/antiplanner/?p=515 which summarizes the reasons why high speed rail makes no sense. There are many related articles on this website. There are so many, MANY reasons to vote down this insane measure. The fact that California is flat broke from current profligate spending and borrowing is only the latest additional reason to vote down Prop 1A. For a detailed, devastating debunking of this incredible HSR boondoggle — a.k.a. Prop 1A — go to the 196 page study of this issue just released in September, 2008 by the Reason Foundation:
http://www.reason.org/ps370/
Fortunately at this same web page you’ll find a readable summation of the study.

If that’s not enough, go to
http://www.ti.org/antiplanner/?p=515
which summarizes the reasons why high speed rail makes no sense. There are many related articles on this website.

There are so many, MANY reasons to vote down this insane measure. The fact that California is flat broke from current profligate spending and borrowing is only the latest additional reason to vote down Prop 1A.

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