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Los Angeles-basin electric-streetcar map a century ago, during the state's previous foray into rail expansion (California Digital Library)
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California High-Speed Rail No. 4: From the Chairman–7 Ways in Which It Would Help California

  • James Fallows
  • July 14, 2014
For your reference, the chairman's detailed pro-and-con about the most ambitious current attempt to change America's transportation infrastructure
What they're trying to build (Esri and UC Davis)
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California High-Speed Rail No. 3: Let’s Hear From the Chairman

  • James Fallows
  • July 14, 2014
It's time for broader national attention to the most expensive and ambitious infrastructure proposal in America today.
The Louisiana Purchase, most fortunate land deal in American history, was to Thomas Jefferson's critics a case of unconstitutional overreach. (St. Louis Public Library)
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California High-Speed Rail No. 2 The Critics’ Case

  • James Fallows
  • July 11, 2014
Every big infrastructure project is controversial. Most of them work out better than critics contend early on. But maybe the critics are right about high-speed rail. Let's hear what they say.
Infrastructure moves the world (from Hiroshige's watercolors of the Tōkaidō) (Wikimedia)
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The California High-Speed Rail Debate Kicking Things Off

  • James Fallows
  • July 9, 2014
The Erie Canal. The transcontinental railroad. The Interstate Highway system. Big, expensive, controversial—and indispensable. Is the next one in this series a new rail network in our most famously freeway-centric state?

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