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Last week Amtrak rolled out a new plan for high-speed rail in the Northeast Corridor. A bullet train deserves some bullet points, and the proposal offers [...]

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Monday's high-speed rail study session was slated to be a conversation among the city council with no official actions taken. As arguments against the [...]

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The welcome gift from Washington, which the state will match dollar-for-dollar, will give the California High Speed Rail Authority the funds it needs to [...]

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They also disagree about California's high-speed rail project, which would carry passengers between major cities in the Bay Area and Southern California on [...]

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Key discussions will center around the future of passenger rail and the California High Speed Rail. The current Amtrak-California system is quite successful [...]

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Transport Secretary Philip Hammond announced at the Conservative Party conference today that the government will support plans for high-speed rail links to [...]

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Cambridge will miss out on a high-speed rail link which would have slashed journey times to London. Hopes have been dashed for the multi-billion pound [...]

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Cary and its neighbor to the east will partner on a broad rail corridor study, which will study the effects of high-speed rail on both municipalities. [...]

A site dedicated to information on high speed rail, containing details of trains and projects all over the world, and a look at the social benefits of an [...]

21 Sep 2010 Opposition from freight railroads is threatening the Obama administration's multibillion-dollar push to make high-speed passenger trains an [...]

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A Next-Generation High-Speed Rail service could be successfully developed in the Northeast with trains operating up to 220 mph (354 kph) on a new two-track corridor resulting in a trip time of about three hours between Washington and [...]

The Government intends to build two branches to the planned new £33 billion high-speed rail network north of Birmingham, Transport Secretary Philip Hammond is due to announce. [...]

High Speed 1 (HS1), officially known as the Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL) and originally as the Continental Main Line (CML), is a 108-kilometre (67 mi) high-speed railway line [...]

Send by Robert Cruickshank

The Federal Railroad Administration this week released $235 million in ARRA (ie the “stimulus”) funds for high speed rail planning, and California received $194 million – or 82.5% of the total – for engineering and planning work on our [...]

Register now for High Speed Rail 2010 - New York, the HSR event of the year! Learn from world experts and how we can scale up the American HSR industry to build our [...]

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California High-Speed Rail Authority board member Quentin Kopp said the phased implementation request would be tricky considering the legal provisions under [...]

Send by Linda Haywood

The UK government proposal for a high speed rail network in England has taken shape with the decision to branch the line at Birmingham into separate routes to. [...]

President Obama unveiled his administration's blueprint for a new national network of high-speed passenger rail lines Thursday, saying such an investment is necessary to reduce traffic congestion, [...]

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by PaloAltoOnline.com A discussion tonight will focus on eminent domain and high-speed rail, sponsored by group that claims an overhead high-speed-rail structure would result in "hundreds of family homes and other properties" taken by eminent domain in portions of the Peninsula. [...]

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The Government intends to build two branches to the planned new £33 billion high-speed rail network north of Birmingham, Transport Secretary Philip Hammond is due to announce. [...]

Malaysia BN"S Govt will award SUPER BIG PROJECTS which will benefits some infrastructure companies. The GEM OF THE MANY PROJECTS IS THE PRIME LAND IN KL. ( Sg Buloh & Sg besi land bank) GUESS WHO WILL GET IT ! their stock will fly when the awards announce. YEAR 2010/2011 WILL BE THE year of SUPER BI [...]

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is engaging in a little window-shopping of China's new high-speed train lines while peddling Californian exports and tourism in the world's second-largest economy. [...]

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High Speed Rail Canada - Blog - Le Train à grande vitesse au Canada. High Speed Rail Canada is a national citizens organization dedicated to educating Canadians on the benefits of high speed rail. [...]

Send by Ross

“There is a benefit for the whole country from having a high speed rail network, faster economic growth and greater prosperity. “The job of Government is to balance the national interest against the local impact.” [...]

Send by Eric Richardson

I am totally in favor of high-speed rail. I spoke with one of the women on the project who explained how the shared track would work. I was concerned before but she explained that there would be two tracks, one for the high-speed rail, [...]