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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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Amtrak As Subway Map
See Amtrak's entire passenger rail system laid out like a subway map.
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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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Americans Took 10.4 Billion Trips on Public Transit in 2011
Americans are in the middle of a serious flirtation with public transportation.
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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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How to Green Your Holiday Travel
I've come to think of getting to Christmas as another part of the season's indulgence. But there are ways to get home and hold onto green principles.
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Maybe Mass Transit Does Hate America: Amtrak Train Kills Bald Eagle
As if red, white, and blue-blooded Republicans needed another reason to hate on mass transit. Amtrak kills bald eagles.
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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.
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Train-lover Joe Biden Defends Amtrak
Everyone knows the VP loves his trains, so his new opinion piece at Huffington Post isn't really telling us anything new. It's a little misty-eyed...
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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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Two-Mile Solar Tunnel Powers Rail Between Paris and Amsterdam
This incredible 16,000-panel solar array on top of a Paris to Amsterdam rail line powers half of the big Antwerp train station nearby.
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Japan Will Build Blazingly Fast Tokyo to Osaka Maglev Train
Imagine making it from New York to D.C. in 45 minutes. That's how quickly Japan's maglev train will make it from Tokyo to Nagoya.
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California's First Stretch of High-speed Rail Now Actually Useful
A vote yesterday will extend the first segment from the relatively unpopulated Central Valley to Bakersfield.
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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...
