Recent Streetsblog SF posts about High Speed Rail

The Political Climate That Makes Transportation Reform Run

By Elana Schor | | No Comments
When House transportation committee chairman Jim Oberstar (D-MN) recently accused his colleagues of lacking the "political will" to pursue long-term reform of infrastructure policy, he wasn’t simply employing a D.C. rhetorical flourish. To understand what Oberstar meant, let’s travel to Berlin for a moment. A German-made high-speed rail car. (Photo: Spiegel) Colby Itkowitz, CQ’s crack […]

The Oversight Gap in Team Obama’s High-Speed Rail Plan

By Elana Schor | | No Comments
The White House’s economic stimulus law included several large new spending programs, from $4 billion for broadband to $2.4 billion for electric car batteries. But nothing has aroused so much interest — and criticism — as the $8 billion for American high-speed rail. (Photo: Streetsblog LA) Under the circumstances, one might think that lawmakers would […]

Nature’s Unsung Helper

By Chris Carlsson | | 9 Comments
Stephen O’Brien, gardener at Transbay Terminal since 1958. Stephen O’Brien has been coaxing an oasis out of a most unlikely environment for a long time: the small green patches at either end of the ground level Mission Street frontage of the Transbay Terminal. He started back in 1958, when the old Key System train tracks […]

Toward a Positive Argument for High-Speed Rail

By Ryan Avent | | 1 Comment
In recent weeks, I’ve been busily making what you might call a negative argument for high-speed rail — pointing out the many ways in which arguments against HSR are deficient. That’s all well and good, but positive cases for HSR need to be made, as well. Now, others have already begun to do this. California […]
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