Sentences with phrase «high speed rail in»

The high speed rail in California may open up a lot of affordable housing in far flung areas to lower income people helping to alleviate the problem temporarily.

There has been no talk of high speed rail in Wisconsin — which has $ 6.5 billion transportation budget for fiscal years 2011 - 2013, since Walker's decision.

But alas — goodbye high speed rail in Wisconsin and Ohio, we hardly knew ye.

The Obama administration has proposed a green track for high speed rail in the United States, with $ 8 billion in funding from the stimulus legislation to start rebuilding America's old rail system.

(The introduction of fast, cheap air travel by the likes of RyanAir and EasyJet has even siphoned off travelers from high speed rail in Europe.)

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.

«Travelling on high speed rail in Europe is a superb experience and the time is now for travel sellers to embrace growing consumer demand and the extra earning potential of international rail travel.»

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.

Local State Assemblyman David Gantt, Chair of the Assembly's Transportation Committee, questioned DOT Commissioner Joan McDonald about the progress of high speed rail in upstate New York.

In September the first cohort of students will enrol at the new National College for High Speed Rail in Birmingham and Doncaster.

Senator Martin Malavé Dilan said: «For years, High Speed Rail in New York has been little more than a conversation, with little tangible evidence of it becoming a reality.

Or Lord Adonis, whose views on education and transport (the two ministries in which he has served) chime with the Conservative leadership (just today he was promoting high speed rail in The Times).

You have high speed rail in China.

«You have high speed rail in Japan.

Not exact matches

Instead of investing in highways, ports, high - speed rail projects, and modern utilities, the U.S. has for decades continued putting new coats of paint on the same cracked wall.

Some worry China's high - speed rail experiment will lead to a debt crisis, since the mammoth project has already saddled China's railway ministry with US$ 150 billion in debt.

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.

In other law enforcement applications, police at the Zhengzhou East high speed rail station in Henan province have been equipped with smart glasses with facial recognition software that can identify wanted criminals, while Beijing police are using the world's first surround - body camera with inbuilt facial recognition technologIn other law enforcement applications, police at the Zhengzhou East high speed rail station in Henan province have been equipped with smart glasses with facial recognition software that can identify wanted criminals, while Beijing police are using the world's first surround - body camera with inbuilt facial recognition technologin Henan province have been equipped with smart glasses with facial recognition software that can identify wanted criminals, while Beijing police are using the world's first surround - body camera with inbuilt facial recognition technology.

Several Southeast Asian countries are looking to replace or update aging rail networks, provoking fierce commercial competition between Japan and China which have expertise in developing high speed trains.

WALINI, Indonesia — Indonesia broke ground Thursday on a new rail line between the capital Jakarta and Bandung, officially marking the start of three years of construction on what is expected to be the first high - speed rail service to operate in Southeast Asia.

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.

A high - speed rail link between Beijing and 2022 Winter Olympics co-host Zhangjiakou will begin test runs in August, 2019.

With the world's largest population, China is the capital of high - speed rail, the leading global automobile market, and an innovator in bike sharing.

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.

Those experts state that not only can we have a Hyperloop train running in California within a decade, but that it will cost between $ 7 and $ 16 billion, which is actually a lot less than the high - speed rail system that the state is working on.

The Bay Area Council Economic Institute and Central Valley Community Foundation today announced the launch of an in - depth study to examine Fresno's important role in the fast - emerging Northern California megaregion and how the arrival of high speed rail over the next decade will dramatically accelerate economic connections between Silicon Valley and the broader Bay Area and the state's fifth largest city.

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.

The company said in September that it would pitch in $ 50,000 to supplement $ 300,000 in Washington State funding for a study of how to link the Pacific Northwest to Vancouver via high - speed rail.

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.

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.

During his visit to India in December 2015, CEO Sundar Pichai announced the plan to equip 400 rail stations with high - speed Internet as part of the company's expansion efforts.

Hypothetically the hyperloop should be able to achieve speeds of around 300 meters per second — faster than the fastest high speed rail technologies in use today.

As for the $ 7.8 billion highway and high - speed rail line connecting the coastal and mountain clusters, a wag in the Russian press calculated that it would have been cheaper to pave them with a layer of foie gras eight inches thick.

«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.

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.

In advance of the Government's expected approval of the High Speed Rail Project (HS2); Sarah Lee, Head of Policy for the Countryside Alliance, said:

«High - speed rail is way behind in this country and there are places that we have financed pretty heavily that have it already.

It is the second piece of proposed legislation in the Queen's Speech covering high speed rail; the other being the high speed rail (preparation) bill which provides commitment to funding the project and will need to pass through Parliament before this bill.

Although the study shows faster trip times from city to city with a high - speed rail, he said that doesn't factor in drive time to the station and boarding times.

We've already set out plans this autumn for a huge investment in rail, and my RHF the Transport Secretary will set out in the new year plans to take High Speed 2 to the North West and West Yorkshire.

High speed rail was included in the environmental agenda Cuomo released during the campaign.

YNN reporter Sabina Kuriakose caught up with Arcuri yesterday at the train station in Rensselaer where he was on - hand to promote high - speed rail.

«Spending in excess of # 50Bn on HS2, a high speed rail line that will predominantly serve London and not address the capacity and connectivity issues of the current rail network, makes even less sense than it did before the vote to leave the European Union.»

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.

There'll be more than enough time to talk about politics in the future, but for now obviously the important thing is making sure that we get projects like high speed rail and as much funding for upstate New York.»

MPs have told both sides of the high speed rail debate to stop «name - calling» in their report assessing the government's proposals.

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.