FINALLY major MSM has started reporting the bogus nature of the HSR projections that suckered the voters into approving the $10 billion CA HSR bond. Here’s an excellent article from the LA TIMES, no less!
http://www.redcounty.com/la-times-questions-high-speed-rail/37308
(a better link to the article than going directly to the TIMES, and includes interesting comments)
Recently I posted a column here I wrote (published in two newspapers that I know of) about why terrorists will love CA HSR.
Naturally a couple HSR advocates engaged me in comments on Rostra, and a lively (if little read) online discussion has resulted.
I encourage you all to waste your time following my exchange with HSR fan Jerome Stocks, a Leucadia politician who enthusiastically supported retroactive public employee unfunded pension increases. Jerome’s gullibility, reasoning and ridiculing attitude are in a way as illuminating as my pearls of wisdom — one needs to understand the LACK of reasoning and healthy skepticism underlying this HSR push.
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