Sentences with phrase «by high speed rail»

Today you travel by high speed rail to Turin, for an overnight stay.

In addition this model can predict the impacts of future entry by high speed rail on new markets.

Not exact matches

Hyperloop One, one of the companies looking to create the high - speed rail that Elon Musk outlined in 2013, on Tuesday released a video that shows what it might look like to travel by Hyperloop.

Founded by Moreno, Mormedi has developed high speed trains for Spanish rail service RENFE and Hitachi, as well as interior and exterior truck designs for Hino, Toyota's (tm) medium and heavy duty truck brand.

A good example is the push by the Obama administration to develop high - speed rail around the country.

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Tolls on motorways and charges for lorry drivers would be used to fund a major upgrade of the rail network, including high speed train lines such as a London - Edinburgh link, under plans set out by the party today.

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.

The abandoned west coast main line rail franchise could be followed by the scrapping of the Department for Transport's controversial planned high speed rail network linking London with Birmingham, its opponents are hoping.

High speed rail could be transformative for New York — with the potential to revitalize Upstate New York's economy with construction jobs now and permanent jobs created by the new high speed rail links to New York City, Toronto and Montreal in the futHigh speed rail could be transformative for New York — with the potential to revitalize Upstate New York's economy with construction jobs now and permanent jobs created by the new high speed rail links to New York City, Toronto and Montreal in the futhigh speed rail links to New York City, Toronto and Montreal in the future.

It doesn't matter what country you pick across the world, Ultra high speed rail projects are being cancelled, scaled back, bailed out or flogged off, and services cut due to financial problems caused by the grossly over-optimistic passenger forecasts used to justify their construction.

The fact completely ignored by proponents of HS2 is that we have had high speed rail, defined as 124mph, in the UK since the 1970s.

The funding is part of $ 2 billion in high - speed rail grants announced by the federal government in May.

«High speed rail could be transformative for New York — with the potential to revitalize Upstate New York's economy with construction jobs now and permanent jobs created by the new high speed rail links to New York City, Toronto and Montreal in the future,» Cuomo wrote in 2010, a few days after he was elected, in a letter to then - Transportation secretary Ray LaHHigh speed rail could be transformative for New York — with the potential to revitalize Upstate New York's economy with construction jobs now and permanent jobs created by the new high speed rail links to New York City, Toronto and Montreal in the future,» Cuomo wrote in 2010, a few days after he was elected, in a letter to then - Transportation secretary Ray LaHhigh speed rail links to New York City, Toronto and Montreal in the future,» Cuomo wrote in 2010, a few days after he was elected, in a letter to then - Transportation secretary Ray LaHood.

After a joke about sleeping with entrepreneurs - his wife Samantha, specifically, he moves on to name - check the high - speed rail network proposed by shadow transport secretary Theresa Villiers on Monday before slipping in his priorities for both the NHS and the «broken society».

The PM jumps to his defence - sort of - by saying how marvellous the high speed rail plans are.

«In leaving out Heathrow and setting out plans that give no firm guarantees north of the Midlands, Labour's plans are flawed both by lack of ambition and undermined by their inability to grasp the basic truth that high speed rail should an alternative to a third runway not an addition to it,» she commented.

An independent panel assessing compensation claims for those affected by the government's high - speed rail plans is being launched today.

Britain's plans for a high - speed rail link have been unveiled by transport secretary Andrew Adonis, with the fastest trains between London and the West Midlands taking just 30 minutes.

This rebranding is a bit like realising that the phrase «high speed rail» had become so toxic, that «north - south railway» is now used by politicians to denote the direction of flow of economic activity HS2 would bring.

The plans I recently set out for high - speed rail from London to Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds and ultimately Scotland would alone generate 10,000 new jobs — plans which were supported wholeheartedly by the Lib Dems.

The congresswoman was joined by state Sen. Michael Gianaris (D - Astoria), City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer (D - Sunnyside) and representatives from the transportation and contractor fields when she visited the yards to explain the benefits of the grant, which New York received after Florida rejected $ 2 million in federal funds for high - speed rail.

ALBANY, NY (10/29/2010)(readMedia)-- Governor David A. Paterson was today joined by Mayor Paul Dyster; Senators Malcolm Smith and Antoine Thompson; Assemblywoman Francine DelMonte; Acting Commissioner of the Department of Transportation Stanley Gee; Bruce Becker of the Empire State Passenger Association and local stakeholders for a ceremonial bill signing establishing the New York State High Speed Rail Planning Board.

Earlier, Shadow chancellor John McDonnell elaborated on the plans, saying the new «High Speed 3» rail link would transform the economy of northern England, creating 850,000 additional jobs by 2050.

By Paul Snyder A state lawmaker is calling on Gov. Jim Doyle to stop the state's planning for the Milwaukee - to - Madison high - speed rail line.

On Radio 4 last Saturday Ms Villiers said that the party will have radical ideas by the time of the General Election; including on high - speed rail.

By Paul Snyder High - speed rail advocates are racing the state's gubernatorial election cycle to line up support for an expanded track network to Green Bay and Minneapolis.

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.

The proposed high speed rail line would link northern and southern England with 225mph trains running between London and the West Midlands by 2026.

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.

By Sean Ryan [email protected] Critical to transportation as it might be, the Madison to Milwaukee high - speed rail line will offer only a small boost in peripheral development near the Milwaukee Intermodal Station.

Adams» Senate website said the «Senate delegation» visited Wonju City, South Korea, and were greeted by Deputy Mayor Yoong - Hoon Park, and that they went to RDF's Green Industrial Waste Management facility in Buscan, Household Refuse Management in Wonju, and Hyundai's High Speed Rail system.

After the latest grilling by congressional Republicans over funding, Dan Richard, chairman of the state's High - Speed Rail Authority board, ran into the ever - blunt John Burton.

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 interconnection of airports with high speed rail is not particularly visionary as it has been done before with great success by our leading economic competitors.

The Right Track — Delivering the Conservatives» Vision for High Speed Rail, by Tony Lodge and with a foreword by Lord Heseltine, is published today by the Bow Group.

«Ministers are bracing themselves for a savaging by spending watchdogs over the «value for money» of the Government's controversial flagship High Speed rail project.

The Whitehall quango set up by the Labour Government to design the next stage of the country's High Speed Rail network, HS2 Ltd, has delivered him the wrong solution.

By Joe Lanane Brookfield officials will delay a decision on a proposed high - speed rail train station until after Wisconsin elects its next governor.

Dear EarthTalk: Vice President Joe Biden just announced a commitment by the Obama administration of $ 53 billion to high - speed rail.

A recent report found that high - speed rail in the Midwest would reduce air travel by 1.3 million trips and car travel by 5.1 million trips per year by 2020, saving 188,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions (equivalent to taking 34,000 cars off the road while still getting everyone to and from work).

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.

The administration's rail report does not spell out exactly how many of these high - speed corridors will be include new tracks exclusively for use by faster trains, as opposed to tracks shared with freight and slower passenger services.

Now, 140 years after the transcontinental railroad's nearly 2,900 kilometers of track first connected both U.S. coasts, a number of states are hoping for a second golden age of rail, this time fueled by the Obama administration's pledge of billions of stimulus dollars for high - speed railway development.

That year, the magazine detailed, Zhang, using a slush fund provided by the businessmen, cloistered 30 experts from mostly ministry - affiliated universities and research institutes in a hotel for 2 months, during which time they churned out three books on high - speed rail technology that were credited to Zhang.

1,200 - 1,800 Energy requirements, in Btu, to transport a passenger one mile by high - speed rail, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation.

Developments in high - speed rail have historically been impeded by the difficulties in managing friction and air resistance [citation needed], both of which

The construction of a high - speed rail network is also expected to support the United States economy by revitalizing related domestic production and service industries.

The funding is being provided by the Federal Railroad Administration's High - Speed and Intercity Passenger Rail Program.

A report by the U.S. Conference of Mayors, projected that high - speed rail would create tens of thousands of jobs in cities and along rail corridors across the United States.