Sentences with phrase «speed rail link»

These days the news is full of high speed rail links but what about the old days?

By 2010, football fans will enjoy the benefits of multibillion - rand infrastructure projects which include building and renovating ten stadiums, upgrades to the country's airports, and improvements to the country's road and rail network, including getting a new high speed rail link between Johannesburg, Pretoria and Johannesburg Airport up and running.

Mr Justice Ouseley handed down judgment today on a number of judicial review challenges to the Government's decision to proceed with a high speed rail link from London to Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester.

The ICE train station with high - speed rail links across Europe is situated directly underneath the building.

The former transport secretary headed the body that makes recommendations to the government on projects such as the high - speed rail link HS2.

It is slated to become a transport hub that will house the main terminal for a planned high - speed rail link with Singapore.

Jones has often taken part in campaigns related to transport such as dedicating himself to promoting a new high - speed rail link connecting London to Harrogate to promote commerce in the region and campaigning for greener buses.

The 57 km (35 - mile) twin - bore Gotthard base tunnel will provide a high - speed rail link under the Swiss Alps between northern and southern Europe.

DRIVING a high - speed rail link through the rolling hills of the Champagne region could put some of its smaller vineyards out of business, warns a French climatologist.

The opening of a high - speed rail link means that sun - seeking Londoners can now reach the beach in just 90 minutes.

He adds: «The TGV [high - speed rail link] between Tangier and Casablanca is one of the most obvious examples [of such investment].

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.»

A journalist who has long championed her beliefs with admirable conviction, Toynbee reflected on Peter Mandelson's «epiphany», his conclusion that the high speed rail link between north and south might not do what it says on the tin.

The Conservatives would scrap plans for a third runway at Heathrow, it emerged this morning, introducing a high speed rail link between Leeds and London instead.

As a Labour politician and northern city leader, I despaired at George Osborne's austerity agenda while he was at the Treasury, but readily endorse his recent call in the Financial Times for ministers to speed - up plans to create a high - speed rail link across the north of England — from Liverpool and Hull — in order to «transform the northern economy».

The compensation scheme for those affected by the high - speed rail link HS2 «was so unfair as to be unlawful», the High Court has ruled.

It holds a number of government contracts, including for the construction of a high - speed rail link and for the maintenance of roads.

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

The Ontario government has proposed a high - speed rail link that will rapidly transport workers from Kitchener and London to Toronto's Pearson airport.

Local Tory associations have withheld tens of thousands of pounds from party HQ to underline their opposition to plans to construct the high - speed rail link (HS2) between London and Birmingham.

Read the script of the chancellor's speech setting out the case for linking northern England's cities together - and using a new high - speed rail link to do so, to boot - delivered in Manchester this morning

The Liberal Democrats were the first party to call for the high speed rail link — as far back as 2004.

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 future.

High Speed Rail Link Shamik: High speed rail link long overdue!

A recent government - commissioned report on Britain's future transport needs was unenthusiastic about the benefits of high - speed rail links, and said the government would be better to invest in small - scale improvements.

The high - speed rail link is a particularly big issue in her patch, for example.

Nor would introducing a high - speed rail link, such as the one proposed between London and Scotland, provide any major impact, he said.

Hoping to tap into the Clinton Administration's interest in high - speed rail transportation, Gov. Mario M. Cuomo yesterday proposed building a high - speed rail link between New York City and Albany that would eventually connect to Boston in only two hours.

• It's refreshing to see Andrew Adonis drumming up passengers for his proposed high - speed rail link between London and the North with his suggestion to move the House of Lords well to the north of Watford (Move House of Lords out of London, says Lord Adonis, 19 April).

Ministers announced a series of changes yesterday to plans for a # 12bn high - speed rail link from London to Birmingham in an effort to avert a Conservative rebellion against the scheme.

«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 future,» Cuomo wrote in 2010, a few days after he was elected, in a letter to then - Transportation secretary Ray LaHood.

Ontario premier Kathleen Wynne recently announced a high - speed rail link from Toronto to Windsor.

The Labour peer Andrew Adonis conceived of the high - speed rail link, which will initially shorten train times between London and Birmingham and eventually move up the country providing quicker connections between northern cities and the capital.

He also attacks the lack of a credible aviation strategy and says it is «nonsense» for Philip Hammond, the Transport Secretary, to claim that building a high - speed rail link will ensure Britain does not lose out to other European airports, which are already successfully exploiting global markets, such as China.

If Brown announced that he was dropping airport expansion and instead committing to high - speed rail links between British cities and the continent, the G8 would know it was time to raise their own game.

Britain's plans for a high - speed rail link have been unveiled by transport secretary Andrew Adonis, with the fastest trains between London and the West Midlands taking just 30 minutes.

Ms Cooper said a number of projects will transform the Gateway - including Crossrail, the high speed rail link to Europe and the biggest deepwater port in Europe - but investment must still go further.

The estimated benefits of the planned HS2 high - speed rail link are dwindling as costs rise, a group of MPs has said.

I also welcome her support for the ending of the BAA monopoly, her scepticism about Boris» Thames Estuary airport plan and her plan for a new hi - speed rail link (although it's too slow in starting).

George Osborne wants to build a high - speed rail link and the Labour Party has made it clear that we need to strengthen regional agencies.

George Osborne wants to build a high - speed rail link and the Labour...

The high - speed rail link to the Channel Tunnel, which opened in 2003, «was constructed under very sensitive buildings and used one of the much more modern tunneling machines, and the movements were much smaller.

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«He will also share his thoughts and opinion on a number of key issues for WTM participants that he has previously been heavily involved in, including plans to expand airport capacity in the south - east of England and the High Speed rail link.»

Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx eyes high - speed rail link from Atlanta to Washington D.C.

The Guardian reports that the two - mile long Belgian solar rail tunnel was specifically built to protect trains from falling trees on a high - speed rail link that runs by an ancient forest.