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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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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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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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U.S. Rail Infrastructure: A Slow-Moving Train
Over at Planetizen, the self-professed rail devotee Jeffrey Barg considers the slow-moving progress of rail infrastructure in the United States....
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Five Things You Should Know About High-speed Rail
Planetizen has just launched a new high-speed rail site, HSR News, tracking everything there is to know about our attempts to import fast trains...
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It's Official: High-speed Rail Money Announced
Exciting news: We now know where Obama's $8 billion for high-speed rail is going. Florida is getting $1.25 billion (not the $2.6 billion they had...
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Florida Might Be First for High-speed Rail
Remember back when everyone was talking about the stimulus bill, and how it included $8 billion for high-speed rail projects, and we all had fun...
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Belgium’s New Calatrava Train Station
The city of Liège, Belgium just opened their new high-speed train station, designed by the illustrious Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava,...
GOOD Blog
A Comprehensive Plan for High Speed Rail in America
Infrastructurist points us to a fascinating report by America2050 (I hadn't heard of them either: they are "a national initiative to meet the...
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Battle over High-Speed Rail Rages on
The Harvard economist Edward Glaeser (pictured) wrote a four-post series in The New York Times recently arguing that high-speed rail won't work...
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High-speed Rail Versus Harvard Economist
Over at The New York Times' Economix blog, Harvard economist Edward Glaeser is trying to model the costs and benefits of building a...
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Update: When You’re Getting High-speed Rail
As you may remember, there was $8 billion in the stimulus package for high-speed rail projects. Today, Tranportation for America provides us with...
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More Support For Bullet Trains (But Still No Trains)
It's funny how many studies have been done to prove that high-speed rail is a great idea. These reports tend to show that people would make ample...
GOOD Blog
Trains: Getting Slower All the Time
It's a well known fact that trains in the United States aren't especially speedy (we documented this first hand a few issues ago). What's less...
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Obama Announces High-speed Rail Plan
Obama and his rail-boosting vice president made a big PR push for high-speed rail this morning. There aren't any real surprises in the routes they...
GOOD Blog
Superb Nonexistent Idea: Universal Subway Cards
We've posted before about the nation's proposed new high-speed rail network, and today Obama gave a speech about his plans to implement such a...
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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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Here Are Your New High-speed Railroads
The amount of money in the stimulus package for high-speed rail, $8 billion, turned out to be much higher than in previous draft versions of the...
