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House Transportation Bill is a Step Backwards, Lacks a Serious Funding Mechanism

Tuesday, January 31, 2012
By | Emily Rusch
State Director

Statement of U.S. PIRG Tax and Budget Associate Dan Smith on the U.S. House transportation reauthorization bill.

Media Hit | Transportation

The New York Times: Dollars for Roads or Dollars for Rail

Although the price tag for high-speed rail is daunting, it is important to consider the budgetary and societal costs of highway and airport expansions that California would need without it. 

Media Hit | Transportation

New York Times: California Bullet Train Project Advances Amid Cries of Boondoggle

With a brashness and ambition that evoke a California of a generation ago, state leaders — starting with Gov. Jerry Brown — have rallied around a plan to build a 520-mile high-speed rail line from Los Angeles to San Francisco, cutting the trip from a six-hour drive to a train ride of two hours and 38 minutes. And they are doing it in the face of what might seem like insurmountable political and fiscal obstacles.

Report | CALPIRG | Transportation

High-Speed Rail: Public, Private or Both?

Private sector companies are likely to play a major role in the construction of high-speed rail lines in the United States. Even as California nears construction of the nation’s first high-speed rail line, however, it remains unclear just how the private sector will participate in building out the nation’s high-speed rail network.

News Release | CALPIRG | Transportation

Principles forPublic Private Partnerships and California’s High-Speed Rail Project

A first-of-its-kind report outlines principles for utilizing public-private partnerships to build high-speed rail in California. The research report released by CALPIRG examines the experience with public-private partnerships for high-speed rail in other countries and the U.S.

News Release | CALPIRG | Transportation

CALPIRG Statement in Response to LAO Report

Statement by Emily Rusch in response to LAO report.

News Release | CALPIRG | Transportation

Fresno Leaders Call for $2 Billion in High-Speed Rail Money to Come to the Central Valley

High-speed rail supporters call on the Department of Transportation to invest in California's high-speed rail line all the way up to Merced and all the way don to Bakersfield. 

Media Hit | Transportation

The Bakersfield Californian: Fresno rally calls for more bullet train money

Supporters of California's high-speed rail project gathered in Fresno Wednesday to urge federal officials to give the state most of the $2.4 billion in bullet train money turned away in February by Florida.

Report | CALPIRG | Transportation

Do Roads Pay for Themselves? Setting the Record Straight on Transportation Funding

To have a meaningful national debate over transportation policy—particularly at a time of tight public budgets—it is important to get past the myths and address the real, difficult choices America must make for the 21st century. 

News Release | CALPIRG | Transportation

Myth Busted: Road Costs Not Covered by Gas Taxes

A new report released today by the CLPIRG disproves the common misperception that road-building is paid for by user fees, showing that gas taxes cover barely half the costs of building and maintaining roads, a fraction which is likely to fall steadily. 

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