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Original Technorati articles tagged “high speed rail”

• in Politics
  Young Abe Lincoln on Infrastructure Investment
  Investing in infrastructure puts us in a position where we can hopefully hold our position in the economies of the world in the future, and provide work for citizens today.
  by danbimrose / on Aug 17, 2011
• in Green
  $53 Billion - Too Much or Not Enough? The Debate over High Speed Rail
  The debate over $53 Billion that would deliver High Speed Rail to 80% of the population divides down political and ideological lines.
  by jreinh01 / on Feb 8, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “high speed rail”

 

• Building Transportation Infrastructure in a Broken Political System

  
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  By Robert Cruickshank Over at his blog, Alon Levy has an interesting post calling for more democracy in the planning and authorization of transportation infrastructure. Levy points to Switzerland as an example of a political system where transportation projects are routinely put to a referendum and the results are ...
  2 weeks ago

• Parsons Brinckerhoff handed extension for California high-speed rail

  
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  Parsons Brinckerhoff has won a two-year contract extension worth $120 million to continue programme management California’s proposed 800-mile high-speed rail network. The project will eventually connect Los Angeles with San Francisco in less than three hours. The first phase of the planned 800-mile network will ...
  2 weeks ago

• Queen announces legislation for HS2 construction

  
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  Legislation that will lay the groundwork for the construction of HS2 has been announced by the Queen during the State Opening of Parliament. Two draft bills, one that gives the government the legal power to buy the land needed and another that would allow the government to build the new railway, were outlined today ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ray LaHood: HSR is Obamas Crowning Glory

  
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  By Robert Cruickshank Ray LaHood gave some parting remarks this week as he wraps up his tenure as U.S. Transportation Secretary. He was full of praise for President Barack Obama, but high speed rail was at the top of the list. read more
  3 weeks ago

• Who’s Crazy?

  
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  The Antiplanner’s faithful ally, Robert Poole of the Reason Foundation, told a Congressional committee last week that highway user fees should be dedicated to highways and any federal subsidies to transit should come out of other funds. Unfortunately, we have become so used to the idea that everything should be ...
  3 weeks ago

• Illinois’ Mythological Transportation Scheme

  
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  If these deadbeat states are expecting the rest of the nation’s taxpayers to bail our the stupidity of their governments, they are going to be out of luck. California, dead broke and utterly unable to stop themselves from digging their hole even more deeply, cannot release its grip on the fantasy of a high speed ...
  3 weeks ago

• Service disrupted for Taiwan High Speed Rail due to signalling error

  
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  Just yesterday, high-speed rail service was suspended for nearly four hours in Taiwan. It was later found out that this delay was caused by a signalling system error at Greater Taichung station. In the end, this caused the cancellation of [...]
  4 weeks ago

• Trains, Stations and the Narrative of Power

  
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  Harbin Xi railway station sits way out in the west of town. It’s an enormous red brick affair, a grandiose arch that towers over windswept, snowclad plazas, its waiting room a blaze of dominant glass. The Chinese government completed it last December as a stop on a brand new line that runs from here to Dalian, the ...
  4 weeks ago

• One Lawsuit Down For California High Speed Rail

  
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  The California High-Speed Rail Authority (the Authority) has reached a settlement with a group of California Central Valley farmers who had sued to block the high speed rail project based on environmental grounds. Thanks to the settlement, the Authority has agreed to establish a $5 million fund to preserve farmland ...
  4 weeks ago

• Spain’s Renfe Offers Rail Pass On AVE High Speed Train Network

  
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  A new “ Renfe Spain Pass ” offers international tourists (non-Spanish residents) a flexible rail pass  to travel around the country. The pass is good on all AVE long and medium distance high speed trains.  The pass is good for one month from the date it is first validated for travel, and can be purchased up ...
  4 weeks ago

• Saying of the Week: I’m Late.

  
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  The  Word of the Week  comes from China Digital Space’s  Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon , a glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens and frequently encountered in online political discussions. These are the words of China’s online “resistance discourse,” used to mock and subvert the official language around ...
  4 weeks ago

• Californicating the taxpayers [Darleen Click]

  
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  Tweet Oh look! US Senator from California, Dianne Feinstein, right in the middle of the high-speed train Browndoggle Out of the entire universe of those who could have won the first phase construction contract for California’s high speed rail boondoggle, who would stand out as the last person who would win it ...
  4 weeks ago

• GUARDIAN (UK) REPORTS: UKIP DRAWS from BOTH LABOUR and the TORIES! SO DOES the TELEGRAPH and MIRROR!

  
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  Is a vote for UKIP a protest vote?  Is UKIP a one issue party?  Although the issue of Europe is one that covers the entire issues of liberty and sovereignty in many areas:  Votes for prisoners for example.  The UK did not come up with that monstrosity – the European Court for Human Rights (human rights for ...
  4 weeks ago

• FRA Not Cooperating on Acela-2 | Systemic Failure

  
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  As a wholly-owned subsidiary of the trucking and highway interests, do you think the Federal Railroad Administration wants high speed rail to operate in the USA? Case closed. Read a great post here. FRA Not Cooperating on Acela-2 | Systemic Failure . Filed under: Amtrak , International High Speed Rail , ...
  4 weeks ago

• HS2 to recommend Ealing and Northolt tunnel

  
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  HS2 has set out revised proposals to construct a tunnel beneath Ealing and Northolt to avoid lengthy bridge demolition works. Plans announced in January set out a surface route along the Northolt corridor through north west London. A study has now found that constructing a 9 km tunnel would actually be a much simpler ...
  4 weeks ago

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