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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.

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.

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.

«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.

The government argues high - speed rail will bring around # 27 billion of fare revenues over 60 - year period, but will cost # 32 billion to construct.

The government's alacrity in commissioning the high - speed rail extension makes its procrastination over London's airport capacity look even more complacent.

Sir David Higgins, who is taking over the body developing the high - speed railway line between London and Birmingham, has been stating his case for the new rail line.

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.

«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.

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.

In the meantime, the Austrian Federal Railways (OEBB - Infrastruktur AG) became interested and commissioned a design project based on the new construction method for a deer pass over two high speed rail tracks in Carinthia.

Concerns over high - speed rail safety emerged in July after two bullet trains collided in China, killing 39 people and injuring 210.

Since 2009, Congress has appropriated over $ 10 billion for the High Speed Intercity Passenger Rail (HSIPR) Program.

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While the raised windscreen header rail looks a bit unsightly when it's up, and does generate some wind noise at high speeds, it deflects airflow over the cabin so effectively that you can cruise on the motorway and remain untroubled by buffeting.

With over four million passengers travelling by air between London and Amsterdam every year, Eurostar's upcoming service from the UK to the Netherlands reinforces high speed rail as the most environmentally responsible choice for short haul travel.

«With continuing investment in our trains, stations and service, customers are increasingly choosing high - speed rail over plane to a range of destinations.»

Getting there From Tokyo's main rail station, visitors can take the Tohoku Shinkansen high - speed train to several stops in the region: To Sendai, in Miyagi prefecture, it's about a 90 - minute ride, and just over an hour beyond that to the northernmost Aomori prefecture.

«We hope this greater range of fare options will allow travellers to make even more use of Europe's high - speed rail network and exploit the environmental advantages of train over plane for seamless rail journeys.»

With business passengers increasingly choosing high - speed rail over plane travel, the new lounge offers a stylish, comfortable environment for both working and relaxing.

Festive trips to the slopes are growing in popularity, with an 18 per cent increase in passengers choosing the ease and comfort of a high - speed rail journey over plane to the Alps.

Transit ridership is way up all over, and a high - speed rail line has been approved in California.

Countries all over the world are now developing high - speed rail, and California and the US are «light years behind» the rest of the world.

Combined, the amount spent on both towers over the amount spent on subsidizing current rail and the funds proposed budget for high speed projects.

Airlines in Trouble Over Oil Prices As we mentioned in our post on the return of turboprop aircraft, airlines have been hit incredibly hard by rising fuel costs and, in places where competition exists, by travellers switching to high speed rail.

Sinking back toward a low $ 80 mark over the course of the past 48 - hours, it was starting to look like an expected Litecoin price correction was turning into an all - out Litecoin (LTC) high - speed rail disaster.

President Barack Obama has been a big believer in high speed rail and he asked people to «imagine whisking through towns at speeds of over 100 miles an hour, walking only a few steps to public transportation and ending up just blocks from your destination.»