Sentences with phrase «high speed rail line»

«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.»

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.

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.

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.

HS2 Ltd is the developer of Britain's new north - south high speed rail line connecting the capital to Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds.

HS2 is the developer of Britain's new north - south high speed rail line connecting the capital to Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds.

THE FACTS: Dismissing an entire package of energy stimulus grants and loans as «green pork» ignores the help that was given to people to make their homes more energy efficient, grants to public entities constructing high speed rail lines and tax credits to manufacturers to install equipment fostering cleaner energy.

The HS2 high speed rail line has an «appalling» business case, will cost each household # 3,000 and has «blown its budget» three times, said a former Conservative cabinet member.

Historic opening of Berlin Munich high speed rail line.

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?

Or, the 1.8 trillion yuan (US$ 263 billion) proposed for transportation and the power grid could be focused on building up the country's fledgling intra-city public transit systems and high speed rail lines rather than on highways, and could build transmission lines that are near areas of abundant renewable energy resources.

«It is extremely disappointing that the Government is pressing ahead with plans for a new high speed rail line that will cost taxpayers a fortune.

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

«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.»

Prof Phil Blythe, Chair of the IET Transport Policy Panel, said: «If the government intends to proceed with the development of a new high speed rail line, it must consider connections to the wider transport network at the outset and plan these effectively to ensure seamless, congestion free, door to door journeys.

Ms Bennett's travel update covered issues such as the prospects for aviation policy, new high speed rail lines and fracking.

The high speed rail line has attracted opposition from those living near the line - mainly in north London, the Chilterns and West Midlands - and divided the business community.

Miliband will say that a Labour government would introduce new technical degrees to meet the demand for hundreds of thousands of STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) technicians needed for infrastructure projects such as the new high speed rail line and the Thames Tideway.

A high speed rail line linking London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds - to dramatically improve journey times;

George Osborne told the conference in Manchester the high speed rail line would bring «more jobs and prosperity to great cities like this».

To add on another issue, the high speed rail line proposal: for it to fulfil it's environmental benefits in reducing the need for domestic flights, it will need to go to Glasgow and Edinburgh and not stop at Leeds as in our weaker proposal.

It wasn't so long ago that Florida Governor Rick Scott notoriously denied his state $ 2.4 billion in federal stimulus funding for a high speed rail line that would link Tampa, Orlando, and Miami.

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