Sentences with phrase «speed rail infrastructure»

Between the two states, $ 1.2 billion of federal stimulus money had already been allotted to create jobs and jump start high speed rail infrastructure.

The Governor used the opportunity to highlight some of the many investments made to New York's high speed rail infrastructure in recent years.

Not exact matches

A massive, long - range infrastructure commitment on the part of the federal govt to support building / rebuliding highways and bridges, interstate train service and hi - speed rail, city mass transit systems, and ports and airports, over minimum 10 years and even better 20, with requirement that majority of manufactured metal components be US - made.

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.

Third, why does the Finance Minister want to create an independent CIDB that will focus only on «National Economic Development projects such as toll highways and bridges, high - speed rail, port and airport expansions, smart city infrastructure, national broadband infrastructure, power transmission and natural resource infrastructure?

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.

«All policy areas will come under increased scrutiny and transport infrastructure will be no exception,» said the group, which supports a rival high speed rail proposal.

«The progress of high - speed rail across the country is a sign that Americans are sick of traveling on crumbling and inefficient infrastructure,» Slaughter said.

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.

- Build a «high tech, high knowledge» economy, creating one million new skilled jobs and modernising infrastructure with high - speed rail, a green investment bank and broadband access for every citizen

«New York stands ready to use this federal money to rebuild our transportation infrastructure, expand high speed rail, and put New Yorkers back to work,» said Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a statement.

«I commend the Federal Railroad Administration for their wise investment in New York's infrastructure and look forward to continuing to work with them to secure additional funding as we enhance the high - speed rail network.»

We're investing in infrastructure, building High Speed rail, finding new ways to finance roads and securing the power supplies of tomorrow.

«This new report reiterates the fact that High Speed rail is about improving transport links in the north and not just connecting infrastructure to London.

Big infrastructure projects like high speed rail, super-fast broadband, carbon capture and storage.

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.

Tim Donnelly told reporters Wednesday that the state should ask voters to use high - speed rail funds to build dams and other water infrastructure.

«High speed rail is coming to New York, because we along with our Federal partners recognize that retrenchment of our transportation infrastructure goals is not an option.

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.

Instead, it contains a long list of priorities, from building national science centers and space programs to expansion of major infrastructure with thousands of kilometers of new high - speed rail and roadways.

«Building a pipeline network in China comparable to the U.S. would be a $ 500 - billion investment,» Sandalow says, although the Chinese have an excellent track record of building large and expensive infrastructure projects quickly, such as a national high - speed rail network that was completed in five years.

The Secretary shall encourage each metropolitan planning organization to cooperate with Federal, tribal, State, and local officers and entities responsible for other types of planning activities that are affected by transportation in the relevant area (including planned growth, economic development, infrastructure services, housing, other public services, nonmotorized users, environmental protection, airport operations, high - speed and intercity passenger rail, freight rail, port access, and freight movements), to the maximum extent practicable, to ensure that the metropolitan transportation planning process, metropolitan transportation plans, and transportation improvement programs are developed in cooperation with other related planning activities in the area.

survey the access arrangements for high - speed and intercity passenger rail service for use of rail infrastructure, assets and facilities owned by freight railroads, commuter authorities, or other entities, and standard processes for the resolution of disputes relating to such access;

evaluate the roles and responsibilities of Federal, State, and local governments, infrastructure owners, and high speed and intercity passenger rail, freight rail, and commuter rail service providers in supporting both the preservation and expansion of high - speed and intercity passenger rail service, freight transportation, and commuter transportation on shared infrastructure or rights - of - way;

Large scale infrastructure planning and buildings dominate their work in East Asia including Incheon Airport in Korea, Beijing and Guangzhou High Speed rail stations in China and the tallest building ever by a British architect in Shenzhen.

Investment in green infrastructure - airports, high speed rail, roads and ports.

The Budget advances infrastructure modernization initiatives like... a new federal commitment to high speed rail — a priority that also received funding from the Recovery Act.

Kunz laid out a pretty convincing case for high speed rail as the solution for a number of problems facing American transportation, including outdated infrastructure, peak oil (or «energy independence,» depending how you look at it), out of control carbon emissions, and more.

And China began implementing a series of six «speed - up» campaigns in the late 1990s to modernize its existing rail infrastructure by increasing the speed and capacity of its 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.

«Republicans have opposed the administration's infrastructure plan, especially its effort to expand high - speed rail.

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