Sentences with phrase «building high speed rail»

Saving energy by changing light bulbs and encouraging line drying are much more immediately actionable steps toward a greener future than building high speed rail.

Meantime, Moonbeam Brown is building the high speed rail to nowhere.

We're investing in infrastructure, building High Speed rail, finding new ways to finance roads and securing the power supplies of tomorrow.

A report from MPs has reignited the debate about the government's proposal to build a high speed rail network in Britain.

The high speed rail (preparation) bill is designed to commit the funding required to build a high speed rail network from London to Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester.

A Chinese rail company is proposing to build high speed rail between Las Vegas and Los Angeles.

America's quest to build high speed rail may have gotten derailed in the last few years, but there are signs that it may be getting back on track.

Not exact matches

CNBC's Jane Wells reports on California's proposal to build a high - speed rail system, but Congress could derail that plan.

The Los Angeles - based company isn't the only one making serious moves to build a high - speed rail.

The collapse poses a headache for Theresa May's government, which had employed Carillion to work on 450 projects including the building and maintenance of hospitals, schools, defence sites and a high - speed rail line.

His company works directly with high - speed rail providers to build what amounts to an Expedia for trains.

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.

Hyperloop One already has agreements with governments in more than a dozen locales who want to see the high speed rail built on their turf.

He believes many of the cities building big airports do not need them, thanks to a rapid expansion of the country's high - speed rail network in recent years (see map).

SpaceX is building a test track for the Hyperloop high - speed rail that could transport passengers from San Francisco to LA in 30 minutes.

After skewering the proposed system («one of the most expensive per mile and one of the slowest in the world»), Musk issued an open - source design challenge: a 28 - passenger solar - powered pod capable of levitating through a system of tubes almost at the speed of sound, with a one - way ticket price of $ 20 and a total building cost estimated at $ 6 billion, less than a tenth of the budget for California's high - speed rail project.

While American politicians debate endlessly over how to finance the needed fixes and which ones to implement, the Chinese have managed to fund massive infrastructure projects all across their country, including 12,000 miles of high - speed rail built just in the last decade.

China has already spent approximately $ 180 billion to complete various projects, but many billions more will go toward building roads, ports, dams, high - speed rail, airports and more — all to «enhance regional connectivity,» as President Xi Jinping put it, and strengthen China's economic clout.

What'd building a high - speed rail grid network between all major areas do for regular Americans?

It's about $ 20 million per mile to build HTT's version of the Hyperloop, according to Ahlborn — a fraction of the current cost of building high - speed rail in the U.S.

«Because they're building SolarCity over there, there are going to be hundreds of jobs, thousands of jobs, and we're with AIM Photonics here (in Rochester), that there would people that could move back and forth in a half an hour on some high - speed rail and the workplace could move from one place to the other, depending on their skills, without having to move from where they live,» she said.

«High speed rail is critical to building the foundation for future economic growth, especially Upstate,» the governor - elect said.

Twenty - five years after Gov. Mario Cuomo proposed building high - speed rail between New York and Boston, a group of Assembly members will introduce legislation on Wednesday establishing an «exploratory commission» to «study and develop Hyperloop and High Speed Rail within New York State.&rahigh - speed rail between New York and Boston, a group of Assembly members will introduce legislation on Wednesday establishing an «exploratory commission» to «study and develop Hyperloop and High Speed Rail within New York State.&rspeed rail between New York and Boston, a group of Assembly members will introduce legislation on Wednesday establishing an «exploratory commission» to «study and develop Hyperloop and High Speed Rail within New York State.&rarail between New York and Boston, a group of Assembly members will introduce legislation on Wednesday establishing an «exploratory commission» to «study and develop Hyperloop and High Speed Rail within New York State.&raHigh Speed Rail within New York State.&rSpeed Rail within New York State.&raRail within New York State.»

The high speed rail (preparation) bill, which will provide parliamentary approval to fund the initial and future phases of the project, and the HS2 hybrid bill, which authorises the building of the first phase of the line, were announced in the Queen's Speech yesterday.

«We have secured investment to allow us to go ahead with important projects such as high speed rail, support for ultra-low carbon cars and major road - building and public transport programmes.»

CHA did some site design work for a solar panel factory that SUNY Poly is building in South Buffalo, and also has more than $ 30 million in various state contracts for everything from dam inspection to crafting a high speed rail plan.

Hoping to tap into the Clinton Administration's interest in high - speed rail transportation, Gov. Mario M. Cuomo yesterday proposed building a high - speed rail link between New York City and Albany that would eventually connect to Boston in only two hours.

- Build a «high tech, high knowledge» economy, creating one million new skilled jobs and modernising infrastructure with high - speed rail, a green investment bank and broadband access for every citizen

«High - speed rail offers us a once - in - a-generation opportunity to transform the way we travel in the 21st century and would help us build a modern economy fit for the future.

The state will use $ 810 million to build a high - speed rail line between Madison and Milwaukee,...

Walker has his $ 50,000 campaign cash from the roadbuilders, explaining why he can not look fairly at the costs, value, return on investment and priority of building this first Wisconsin link of the national high speed rail system for Wisconsin.

Acting Commissioner of the New York State Department of Transportation Stanley Gee said: «I am proud to represent the Department of Transportation which is a permanent member of the new High Speed Rail Planning Board through which I am confident that we will be able to find ways to finance, design, build, operate and maintain a high speed passenger rail system that meets the needs of New York State now and in the futHigh Speed Rail Planning Board through which I am confident that we will be able to find ways to finance, design, build, operate and maintain a high speed passenger rail system that meets the needs of New York State now and in the fuSpeed Rail Planning Board through which I am confident that we will be able to find ways to finance, design, build, operate and maintain a high speed passenger rail system that meets the needs of New York State now and in the futRail Planning Board through which I am confident that we will be able to find ways to finance, design, build, operate and maintain a high speed passenger rail system that meets the needs of New York State now and in the futhigh speed passenger rail system that meets the needs of New York State now and in the fuspeed passenger rail system that meets the needs of New York State now and in the futrail system that meets the needs of New York State now and in the future.

This bipartisan panel will help bring together the experts, stakeholders and the public to address the issues necessary to design, finance, build, operate and maintain a high speed rail system.»

By Darryl Enriquez Two Madison aldermen want the state Department of Health Services building, with its art deco styling, to be home to the new high - speed rail depot near Monona Terrace.

George Osborne wants to build a high - speed rail link and the Labour Party has made it clear that we need to strengthen regional agencies.

George Osborne wants to build a high - speed rail link and the Labour...

Tim Donnelly told reporters Wednesday that the state should ask voters to use high - speed rail funds to build dams and other water infrastructure.

By James Briggs Just three months after insisting there was no stopping a proposed high - speed rail line from being built between Madison and Milwaukee, U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood on Thursday issued the project's death sentence.

Scott has delayed the implementation of two new redistricting amendments passed by voters, released an ambitious education agenda, pushed for $ 2 billion in tax cuts in the midst of budget troubles and, most recently, inflamed state legislators by rejecting a plan to build a high - speed rail system between Tampa and Orlando.

The ghost of the Whitehall farce is beginning to shroud the policy to build the next stage of the country's High Speed Rail network.

Paul Snyder [email protected] City planners have three years to fit an underground parking garage, hotel, public market and office buildings across the street from a new high - speed rail station in downtown Madison.

Instead, it contains a long list of priorities, from building national science centers and space programs to expansion of major infrastructure with thousands of kilometers of new high - speed rail and roadways.

Illinois was the first of 31 states to receive a portion of the funding to begin building high - speed rail lines linking Chicago and St. Louis.

Florida's Republican governor Rick Scott recently rejected $ 2 billion in federal funding to build an 85 - mile high speed rail line between Tampa and Orlando, arguing that cost overruns would likely leave Florida taxpayers making up billions of dollars for something they don't need.

Other states, including Florida and Texas, are proposing to build dedicated high - speed rails from scratch that would allow trains to reach top speeds of about 240 kilometers per hour.

«Building a pipeline network in China comparable to the U.S. would be a $ 500 - billion investment,» Sandalow says, although the Chinese have an excellent track record of building large and expensive infrastructure projects quickly, such as a national high - speed rail network that was completed in fivBuilding a pipeline network in China comparable to the U.S. would be a $ 500 - billion investment,» Sandalow says, although the Chinese have an excellent track record of building large and expensive infrastructure projects quickly, such as a national high - speed rail network that was completed in fivbuilding large and expensive infrastructure projects quickly, such as a national high - speed rail network that was completed in five years.

The high - speed rail link to the Channel Tunnel, which opened in 2003, «was constructed under very sensitive buildings and used one of the much more modern tunneling machines, and the movements were much smaller.

Within the last five years, China has built a network of high - speed rail that covers most of the main routes between cities.

Another issue: Europe is known for an efficient rail system, but Replogle said countries have put down rails of different sizes, hampering plans to build a cross-E.U. high - speed rail system.

Though most reports had stated the show only had three leads, series creator Nic Pizzolatto saw his antagonist as a fourth and wrote Semyon, a businessman with a brutish past trying to build a high - speed rail through California, with Vince Vaughn in mind.