Anything to Denver is a nightmare. The city is simply too isolated and tunneling and grading in the Rockies is enormously expensive. The sweet spot for HSR is under 500 miles, where you have lots of midpoints, relatively few trips of nearly that length, and inconvenient air service. Without midpoints, making any…

South Beach was underwater 100 years ago. Didn’t stop ‘em from building.

Consider a few facts:
South Beach was underwater 100 years ago. We built it.
SFO is built on land that was underwater 100 years ago.
Pike st. market in seattle is built on land that was underwater 100 years ago.
Manhattan had a completely different shape, 100 years ago.
Chicago’s street level, and all downtown buildings,…

A man who owns a car company. That’s who sketched up this “competitor” to HSR. It’s not disruptive technology, just disruptive chatter.

Ronald Reagan killed the exact water project that CA republicans now claim to want instead of the bullet train.

The fact is, export-oriented agriculture makes up 2% of California’s economy, over 80% if its water use. Dairy operations can move to where it actually rains, and the entire drought, for all practical…