According the March 8, 2012 Fresno Bee article, a new study suggests the CA HSR will create jobs. In the real world of things costing money, how many jobs will it take to generate the additional tax increase to support a $100billion state funded project? For the immediate $2billion proposed HSR segment, how many other government reliant jobs will be cut? Is there a study somewhere that asks the question to how many jobs have been eliminated in California and the US due to the enormous increase in taxation?
The study spoken of in the article also suggest that a city along the proposed HSR route with a station 'would fare better' than a city without a station. Is this study actually suggesting that a city has negative benefit with lower land values from visual damage, noise pollution and severed land use access that leads to further economic decrease for everywhere except where a station might be located?
Note to the CA HSRA: update the transit technology to a modern day system that enables every town to have a station. Trains are a relic technology developed in the early 1800s. Our society has developed extensively over the past 150 years and has to have a mobility system capable of meeting modern day transportation requirements. Where is this study?
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