LA Times’s Latest High-Speed Hypocrisy Latest article blames high-speed rail for every ill in the Central Valley, from rodents to drug addictionRodents, bugs, asbestos, drug deals, arson. Of course, the Central Valley had drugs, unemployment, and bad air quality long before high-speed rail construction began. High-speed rail is designed to serve the cities of the Central Valley in part to help address those problems. Such improvements would have allowed for more frequent service and safer operations for both high-speed rail and Caltrain, although the speed difference is minimal.) Back then he identified them as objective and innocent high-speed rail watchdogs and critics.

Source: Los Angeles Times November 03, 2021 00:48 UTC