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Chinese Train Hits 302 MPH, Breaks Commercial Speed Record
If we had trains this fast, one could get from Los Angeles to Portland, Oregon, in five or six hours.
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Two Thirds of Americans Would Use High-Speed Rail
According to a new survey, 62 percent of Americans would use high-speed rail. So lets get it going already.
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California Gets Wisconsin and Ohio's Rail Money
Wisconsin and Ohio don't want their money for fast, efficient transportation? Maybe that's better for the future of high-speed rail anyway.
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It's Official: California's First Stretch of High-speed Rail Selected
The path to California's transportation future will run through Fresno. But it won't have trains.
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California's Confusing Choice for Its First Stretch of High-Speed Rail
High-speed rail! It's the future of efficient transportation and it's coming to... a relatively rural stretch of California's Central Valley?
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Who Gets Florida's High Speed Rail Money?
Florida governor Rick Scott rejected $2.4 billion of high-speed rail. Can the Northeast line get that love?
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How Will High-Speed Rail Impact Los Angeles?
Worried about Carmageddon? Come to this conversation about high-speed rail and envision a better transportation future for L.A.!
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Railroad Revival Tour: Mumford & Sons, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeroes, and Old Crow Medicine Show Embark on Epic Train Tour of American Southwest
Call it the modern day Festival Express. Three scratchy alt-rock bands embark on a rolling hootenanny of a concert tour. All for trains.
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The Upside of the Debt Debacle: Taking the "Long View" Seriously
The debt crisis was nothing but political theater, but wouldn't it be great if more issues got the "think of your grandchildren" treatment?
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Three Brothers Set Out to Explore High-Speed Rail at a Walker's Pace
Three brothers are walking the length of California's high-speed rail tracks to spark a public discussion about land-use and the urban-rural divide.
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The Merits of the Diverging Diamond Interchange
This strange style of highway interchange that requires drivers to switch to the wrong side of the road actually reduced accidents in Missouri.
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Reasonable People Disagree About Electric Cars
Public transit advocates and road warriors have always competed for funding and attention, but now electric vehicles have introduced a sort of...
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Transportation Innovation
Joseph M. Sussman, an external adviser to the Department of Transportation and professor at MIT, explains why the stimulus isn't good enough...
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RailLA Wants You to Envision the Future of Transit
A new advocacy group called railLA has formed to mobilize popular (and business) support to make sure we get a modern high-speed rail system in...
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Map: Where High-Speed Rail Will Be Most Effective
A new report has ranked the cities that would benefit the most from high-speed rail. See if yours made the list.
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GOOD Design Daily: How Jersey City Is Moving Beyond the Car
A new video series by Streetsfilm showcases the various ways that designers and citizens have managed to shift auto-centric culture.
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They Just Finished Digging the World's Longest Tunnel
When Swiss engineers aren't burrowing out spaces for large hadron colliders, they're off digging train tunnels. Really, really long train tunnels.
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"Amtrak Joe" Biden Reveals High-Speed Rail Plans
It's a $53 billion investment over the next six years. The ultimate goal: Giving 80 percent of Americans access to high-speed rail within 25 years.
