This just in! How California’s Bullet Train Went Off the Rails! Yeah, the NYT’s Ralph Vartabedian has the story on California’s long-struggling mega-mega project, a 200 mph bullet train running between San Francisco and LA, aka “the train to nowhere”: America’s first experiment with high-speed rail has become a multi-billion-dollar nightmare. Political compromises created a…
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Forget the high-speed rail—there’s a brand-new way out of Folsom!
Readers of either Matthew Yglesia’s liberal blog or Reason’s libertarian one know of the liberals’ passionate love of high-speed rail (why can’t we be more like Europe?) and the libertarians’ detestation of the same (because Europe sucks, that’s why!). Well, James Fallows, inspired by the burgeoning air-taxi service in the San Francisco Bay Area, may…