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Joe Olmstead Jr. have started ClovisAssociates, a productmar- keting, engineering, and processmanagement consulting compa- ny based in Fresno, CA.Though a new firm, it draws on decades of experience and proven sales, marketing, manufacturing, engi- neering and operations success within the video and security industry. They and a network of other professionals have banded together to help global companies succeed in the multibillion- dollar security and surveillancemarkets. AMAG Technology, a security management and digital


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product lines among several that comprise the Symmetry Securi- ty Management Solution. Walter P Moore has announced that HollisAllen Jr., P.E.,


Ben Cheplak, P.E., Doug Coenen, P.E., Joseph Dowd, P.E., Daron Hester, P.E., and Bart Miller, P.E., have been named Principals of the international engineering and consulting firm. Walter P Moore has built a reputation for design solutions that help clients turn their ideas into structures and infrastructures that work. It also has been recognized throughout its long history for superb client service, engineering excellence and innovation, and in recent years has been consistently rated as one of the industry’s best places to work. Greg Hamm has been named Vice President – Sales and


Marketing of Delta Scientific, the leading manufacturer of counter-terrorist vehicle control systems used in the United States and internationally. Previously, as the company’s National Sales Manager, Hamm played a major role in sales, project management, application engineering and corporate strategic planning. James HakamDib, P.E., has joinedWalker Parking Con-


sultants as a Principal, and will be the Director of its MENA Region (Middle East and North Africa). Hakam has spent the


‘The TroubleWith High-Speed Rail: Billions in Costs for How Many Riders?’


Editor: The following is excerpted, with permission, from


a commentary in the journal Policy Review by Liam Julian, a Hoover Institution research fellow and managing editor of that publication. On April 16, 2009, President Obama announced a plan to


devote $8 billion of his economic recovery package (the stimu- lus), plus another $1 billion a year for five years, to fund high- speed rail corridors across the nation. “Imagine whisking through towns at speeds over 100 miles an hour, walking only afew steps to public transportation, and ending up just blocks from your destination,” the president said. “Imagine what a great project that would be to rebuildAmerica.” Nine months later, in January 2010, the administration


specified where and how those billions of high-speed-rail dol- lars would be allotted. The biggest winners were two long- planned bullet train routes: one in Florida, designed to span the 80miles betweenTampa and Orlando, which took in $1.25 bil- lion of federal money; and the other in California, a proposed system that would eventually connect Sacramento, San Fran- cisco, Los Angeles and San Diego, which collected $2.3 bil- lion.


The highly traveled Northeast Corridor route that current-


ly stretches fromWashington, D.C., to Boston received only $112 million. Some commentators have praised the administration’s


funding plans, but the divvying has struck many other observers as odd. The biggest puzzlement is why a procedural impediment involving an environmental review resulted in the Northeast Corridor receiving so few federal dollars. “If we


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really wanted to have high-speed rail in this country, and have it be a great success,” said Joseph Vranich, author of the books “Supertrains” and “Derailed,” “then what we would do is con- centrate the funds on the New York-Washington corridor, which is the top corridor in the country.” Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor routes transport some 15


million passengers per year, and the nation’s only purported high-speed train, the Acela, travels betweenWashington and Boston, but currently does so at an average speed of less than 80 miles per hour. Obama also has been criticized by those who see trouble


in the breadth of his high-speed-rail ambitions. Robert Puentes, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, told U.S. News andWorld Report: “The advice was, pick one or two cor- ridors and invest wisely.” But instead, the administration is “spreading the peanut butter thinly all over the place.” Other commentators have pointed out that the speedy trains that work in parts of Europe and Asia won’t work in a vast United States, with its dispersed inhabitants.…Can the Obama administra- tion counter the naysayers with numbers and data? No, it can- not. High-speed rail is simply an imprudent and inefficient answer to an unreal U.S. transportation need. One has only to look at the history and development of the nation’s most- advanced, Obama-touted high-speed-rail projects—in Florida and California—to see that the administration’s plan is mere- ly a high-speed way to waste untold billions.… To read Julian’s commentary in full, go to www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/88960277.html.


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