Sentences with phrase «of high speed rail lines»

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.

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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.

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.

Despite winning a share of the UK's 55 bln pound high - speed rail line, the distressed construction company's situation is precarious.

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.

He explains: «The official line is we support the principle of a high speed rail link from the north to the south, but that we have objections to the specific proposal that's on the table at the moment.»

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 government's case for the # 50 billion HS2 high - speed rail line is based on «absurd» assumptions that «do not reflect real life», a committee of MPs has warned.

«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.»

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.

Campaigners intent on stopping the construction of Britain's new high speed rail system were gearing up for a fight today, after the route of the line was announced.

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.

-- The first draft of a report examining five alternatives for the Upstate New York high - speed rail line is due to be completed before the end of the summer.

He also gave initial funding for several large infrastructure projects, such as High Speed 3 (an east — west rail line across the north of England), Crossrail 2 (a north — south rail line across London), a road tunnel across the Pennines, and upgrades to the M62 motorway.

Reps. Ann Marie Buerkle and Hanna are among the minority of New York's congressional delegation who oppose an Upstate high - speed rail line, saying it does not make sense in an era of shrinking government budgets.

«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.»

«Last week the Transport Secretary confirmed a number of commitments around rail in the South West, most notably around improvements to the line at Dawlish, while passengers on the Great Western route can look forward to the introduction of new high - speed trains from this summer, with extra capacity at peak times.

Conservative including Liam Fox, Labour and Liberal Democrat politicians do not support their party line, and oppose the HS2 scheme in detail; some support proposals for alternative routes; and some reject the whole principle of high - speed rail.

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.

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.

As the leading champion of the High Speed 2 rail line from London to Birmingham, it was hoped he could overhaul Britain's creaking infrastructure.

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.

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.

California is developing perhaps the most ambitious high - speed rail plans, a project that would include a mixture of shorter lines connecting Los Angeles to Anaheim and San Francisco to San Jose as well as a longer line traversing the nearly 1,300 kilometers between San Francisco and San Diego (with a branch through Sacramento).

This is one of the reasons Erie, Pa. — based GE Transportation inked a deal on last week with China's Ministry of Railways to better learn how to develop high - speed rail projects in the U.S. View a slide show of international high - speed rail lines for a closer look at how these projects have developed around the world

While working on the route of U.K.'s new high - speed rail line HS2, workers discovered an ancient coastline in a London suburb.

Historic opening of Berlin Munich high speed rail line.

In fact, it secretly holds inexhaustible supplies of a metal called Vibranium, which is not only the ideal lining for a superhero costume, it can also be used to build high - speed rail systems and cure spinal injuries.

FRA found that no significant environmental impacts would result from adding more frequent and higher speed intercity passenger rail service, in large part due to the use of existing operating rail lines within existing rights - of - way.

One of Metro's priority projects, the Purple Line Extension is a critically important rail project that will provide a high - capacity, high - speed and, dependable alternative for commuters to travel between downtown Los Angeles, the Miracle Mile, Beverly Hills and Westwood, where stations will be near UCLA and the VA Hospital.

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From efficient high - speed trains in Andalucia to lines that are widely regarded as attractions in themselves, such as Switzerland's magnificent Bernina Express, we admire some of Europe's finest attractions from the rails.

Train routes from the nearby Euston, St Pancras and King's Cross overground stations, (including easy connections to the key London Airports), the Eurostar international high speed rail and 6 underground tube lines mean King's Cross is one of London's most accessible neighbourhoods for both UK and international visitors.

The premise explained in the aforementioned introduction is the actual basis for one of the missions known as «No TAV» which was movement that was centered in Italy as far back as 1992, with escalations happening within the past few years for the sole purpose of stopping the construction of a 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?

In tracking these trends, of course, it's always important to remember that public transit remains a non-factor for many American consumers — especially when you compare usage statistics in the U.S. to those in the E.U. (when are we going to get all those spiffy high - speed rail lines?)

The country is littered with luxurious county government offices, ghost cities of empty apartment blocks, unsafe high - speed rail lines and crumbling highways to nowhere.

on a network of sleek passenger trains that zip 200 mph and beyond between major urban centres, the United States is still fussing about where to install a single high - speed rail line for a proposed California project.»

The 4,000 miles of rail includes repairs to flagging tracks, freight rail, and some high speed transit lines.

Obviously, it doesn't amount to much in the way of expanding rail transit, whether it's the high speed variety or our currently available beleaguered Amtrak lines.

One wonders whether a different sort of infrastructure project — such as a high - speed rail line — would have been a better long - term investment for the country.

British high speed rail developer brings in Nicole Geoghegan as GC as construction on the first phase of the line looms

It undertakes a range of acquisition and investment work and continues to act for RB Rail on a multibillion - euro joint venture of Latvian, Lithuanian and Estonian companies on the construction of a high - speed rail line from Tallinn to the Polish borRail on a multibillion - euro joint venture of Latvian, Lithuanian and Estonian companies on the construction of a high - speed rail line from Tallinn to the Polish borrail line from Tallinn to the Polish border.

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

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Luckily, this month, we have the pleasure of speaking with the General Counsel and Company Secretary of HS1 Ltd, the company that own and operate the high speed line and the stations along it, who reveals the work behind the international and domestic rail service.

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