More news about CA's proposed HSR

Some people in Palo Alto aren't excited about the HSR (high speed rail). There also seems to be some confusion from the HSRA (high speed rail authority) about what route the proposed train would take through the Peninsula.
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_15981798?source=most_viewed

While other municipalities throughout CA are having apprehension about the validity of financing the antique technology train, Fresno's governmental officials continue on a blinded walk through the fantasy: www.fresnoworks.org

The new NEVs

Better than a golf cart:
http://www.ev.com/ev-com-guides/ev-cars/neighborhood-electric-vehicles/gm-and-segway-puma-photo-gallery.html

reference

Websites for information:
http://www.rita.dot.gov
http://www.aar.com
http://fastlane.dot.gov

hurray for the obvious

Here is another surprise report, well; not a surprise at all. At least this article has support documentation that validates the non-sustainability of automobile oriented design to our Western culture.

http://www.creativeclass.com/creative_class/2010/08/15/commuting-is-very-bad-for-you/

Villaraigosa

Like this was hard to predict:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_bicycling_in_la

transportation and land use

A societal change of our car culture can only be accomplished with a viable alternative to the automobile. A change enacted by bureaucratic procedure runs counter to the government juggernaut. The procedure of the governmental planning is to maintain the status-quo.

The only known possibilities of automobile alternatives within the system of traditional transportation planning is to re-implement the old technologies. This includes 150 year old technology of rail travel with trains, trolleys and streetcars. These are wonderful examples of man's ingenuity and entrepreneurial fortitude; in the 1800s.

It is time to realize this is 2010 and move past the mobility options of the past. To even discuss implementation of archaic transportation technology is a vivid example and statement to the foolishness, greed and corruption of politics. Land use follows mobility access. Major urban growth decisions regarding transportation made by political favors and paybacks reveals a broken system.

transit options

The product of a transportation system built by politicians is a network connected by favors instead of a system built to serve the populace who's money is spent.

An update of the CA HSR:
http://www.fresnobee.com/2010/08/01/2025627/investors-shy-from-california.html