Sentences with phrase «if high speed rail»

If High Speed Rail 2 (HS2) is to achieve a groundswell of public support then the wider economic case for it needs to be made, a panel of transport experts concluded last night.

Not exact matches

As bad as the fight is over getting high - speed rail built between two cities in the U.S., now imagine the fight that would erupt if someone proposed building a superfast transport tube between New York and Mexico City or Los Angeles and Singapore.

As if ignoring high - speed and discouraging US rail investment were not enough, the Harper government now blocks even slow - speed rail.

Right now, there isn't the funding but if we were able to tie international tax reform, tax all that money that the companies have overseas and put that in an infrastructure bank, there could be a trillion dollars of infrastructure funding and you could get the kind of funding we need for high - speed rail,» he said.

While such inaccuracy could have resulted in an overexaggeration by Hammond of the potential benefits to the north - west, if we compare the data with countries around the world that have invested in high - speed rail — including France, Germany, Spain, China and Japan, with America having recently announced plans to expand its rail infrastructure — all showed significant growth along the line.

To wit: I just received a press release from the governor - elect, announcing he has sent a personal letter to U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood asking that if governors - Elect in Ohio and Wisconsin fulfill their respective campaign promises to cancel federally funded high - speed rail projects that New York be the beneficiary of the combined $ 1.26 billion worth of savings.

Hope the Tories back it if they're in power rachel reeves: High Speed Rail fantastic for Leeds and other Northen cities.

If Brown announced that he was dropping airport expansion and instead committing to high - speed rail links between British cities and the continent, the G8 would know it was time to raise their own game.

«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.»

«If we're going to rebuild our economy and create new jobs, we need to connect all of our cities, businesses and workers with high speed rail,» Gillibrand said.

And if one does believe in high speed rail in principle, it makes no sense to plan the HS2 route first and airport expansion later.

«The High Speed Rail project could still be scrapped if costs continue to soar, the Treasury's top civil servant has warned.

On 31 March last year — the day before Railtrack took over responsibility for safety on the railways — the chairman of British Rail wrote to MacGregor to say that if it was up to him, ATP would be adopted on new high - speed lines.

Rising fuel costs and an emphasis on «greener» modes of transportation are shifting priorities in the U.S. Still, the proposed U.S. projects have their work cut out for them if they hope to match the speed and popularity of established high - speed rail systems in other parts of the world.

In addition, 30 rail companies from around the world have pledged that if selected for high - speed rail contracts, they will hire American workers and expand their bases of operation in the United States.

To date, 30 rail companies from around the world have pledged that, if selected for high - speed rail contracts, they will hire American workers and expand their bases of operations in the United States.

So if the $ 8 billion was spent in just 2 corridors at $ 4 billion each, that will only buy 80 miles of high speed rail in each region.

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It's got a lot to do with our deeply steeped car culture, sure — America is the nation where taking to the road offers freedom, renewal, etc — but if we had access to the alternatives a gas tax may offer, could we become as enthralled with the different kind of freedoms offered by say, 185 mph high speed rail lines?

Federal rail safety standards — plus the inability to rip up old track and put down straight rail beds that are truly appropriate for high speed trail travel — have doomed Amtrak's Acela service in the Northeastern Corridor to a pathetic shadow of the fast, convenient service it might have been if we started with a clean slate.

As if ignoring high - speed and discouraging US rail investment were not enough, the Harper government now blocks even slow - speed rail.

If there has to be demand constraint, we will then bring in the analysis I mentioned earlier of where are these flights, and one of the questions we will ask is, «How many of the flights which occur are of sufficiently short distances either because they are domestic or they are London to the south of France, London to the skiing resorts, et cetera», that there is a believable story that they do not have to be flights, they can be high - speed rail, or are quite a lot of them things where, realistically, it is never going to be competed by high - speed rail and, therefore, you actually have to say that we have got to constrain demand in an absolute sense and people just will not be able to make as many journeys as they would want to in an unconstrained fashion.

In May we cited a piece at Infrastructurist arguing that a serious investment in high - speed rail in the U.S. could provide as many if not more jobs than the country's auto industry.

If investing high speed rail is indeed an attempt to herd everyone onto one mode of transportation, to «pick a winner» and control Americans» behavior, then what do you call what we're doing now?

Airlines Cut Flights and Planes to Save Fuel Airlines Save Gas By Slowing Down, Just Like Drivers More on Alternatives to Flying Seat 61: Get There Without Flying Eurostar to Cut Emissions 25 % and Offset the Rest Spain's New High - Speed Rail Challenging the Airlines High - Speed Rail Comes to the Americas CA High - Speed Rail Initiative: «If We Don't Pass This, We Will Never Have High - Speed Trains in the US»

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