«Shadow transport secretary Theresa Villiers said this week that the Conservatives will back the development of new high speed rail lines in their election manifesto... «I am working hard on proposals to take high speed rail forward in this country to see if we can't at least start to catch up with countries like France and to deal with the capacity problems on our network,» she said.» (conservativehome.blogs.com)
According to statistics from the International Union of Railways and other sources, China leads the world with upwards of 2,800 miles of high speed rail lines in operation and another 5,500 miles planned. (scientificamerican.com)
The Obama administration would like to see Americans riding on more than 16,000 miles of high speed rail lines by the middle of the century. (scientificamerican.com)