Sentences with phrase «speed rail project»

Considering the ballooning budget on something like the California high speed rail project, the Webb seems like an example of extreme fiduciary responsibility, and Congress knows to haggle, delay further or cut corners will merely cost it more in the long run.

Brown's staff told key environmental groups that he would no longer include modifications to the California Environmental Quality Act in a package of legislation this month asking for $ 6 billion to start construction of the high - speed rail project.»

As a comparison, the California high speed rail project is about 800 miles and budgeted to cost $ 40 billion, which divides down to around $ 50 million per mile.

The Conferees wish to reiterate language concerning the Florida high - speed rail project in the Senate committee report section on TIFIA.

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«The High Speed Rail project could still be scrapped if costs continue to soar, the Treasury's top civil servant has warned.

«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.

Gov. Jerry Brown asked the California Supreme Court to block delays to the state's high - speed rail project just three days after accepting the maximum campaign contribution from the state's high - speed rail contractor.

Even the state's Democratic leaders are questioning the future of the state's high - speed rail project.

David Heath, the Lib Dem agriculture minister, has said that he has concerns about the HS2 high - speed rail project damaging ancient woodland.

Gillibrand said Friday state Department of Transportation officials have to act quickly to appoint a new high - speed rail project manager.

«The first high - speed rail project in America is -LSB-...]

A Republican lawmaker wants to turn money for California's high - speed rail project into funding for schools.

In advance of the Government's expected approval of the High Speed Rail Project (HS2); Sarah Lee, Head of Policy for the Countryside Alliance, said:

A memorial service has been held for the 60,000 people buried near London Euston station whose bodies will be exhumed as part of the HS2 high speed rail project.

By comparison, California is spending $ 70 billion on a high - speed rail project that delivers only a fraction of the speed that can be achieved by the Hyperloop.

After skewering the proposed system («one of the most expensive per mile and one of the slowest in the world»), Musk issued an open - source design challenge: a 28 - passenger solar - powered pod capable of levitating through a system of tubes almost at the speed of sound, with a one - way ticket price of $ 20 and a total building cost estimated at $ 6 billion, less than a tenth of the budget for California's high - speed rail project.

California's proposal for a high - speed rail project had offended Musk's sense of the state that has historically dreamed up America's future.

Reactions at the time ranged from excitement to skepticism to outright disbelief — Musk was even accused of sabotaging the high - speed rail project for profit, despite his statement that he had no plans to develop the Hyperloop commercially.

Instead of investing in highways, ports, high - speed rail projects, and modern utilities, the U.S. has for decades continued putting new coats of paint on the same cracked wall.

To wit: I just received a press release from the governor - elect, announcing he has sent a personal letter to U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood asking that if governors - Elect in Ohio and Wisconsin fulfill their respective campaign promises to cancel federally funded high - speed rail projects that New York be the beneficiary of the combined $ 1.26 billion worth of savings.

It doesn't matter what country you pick across the world, Ultra high speed rail projects are being cancelled, scaled back, bailed out or flogged off, and services cut due to financial problems caused by the grossly over-optimistic passenger forecasts used to justify their construction.

Her resignation came just days after US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood joined acting Transportation Commissioner Stanley Gee in Rochester to boast that high - speed rail projects would save upstate's moribund economy.

Anaheim Mayor and High - Speed Rail Authority Board Chairman Curt Pringle has said that the state could break ground on its high - speed rail projects before 2012.

The $ 10 - billion price tag to get these projects on track is equally ambitious — California is looking for $ 4.7 billion of this to come from the $ 8 billion in stimulus money the federal government is making available for high - speed rail projects under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

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

And when I need to know something about one of our high - speed rail projects, she's the first person I call.

about U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood Makes $ 2.4 Billion Available for High - Speed Rail Projects Across America

More than $ 40.8 billion in Recovery Act money has been awarded to more than 15,000 highway, airport, transit, port and high - speed rail projects across the country.

A one - hundred percent «Buy America» requirement for high - speed rail projects also ensures that U.S. manufacturers and workers will receive the maximum economic benefits from this federal investment.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today announced that 54 high - speed rail projects in 23 states will share in $ 2.4 billion to continue developing America's first nationwide program of high - speed intercity passenger rail service.

As a result, $ 1.195 billion will be redirected to high - speed rail projects already underway in other states.

According to reports, the new administration is also planning to budget an additional $ 1 billion for high - speed rail projects every year for the next five years.

Seizing their cattle or removing them from their land via expropriation for Trade Corridors, Inland Ports And High - Speed rail projects?

He called for Congress to approve an infusion of funds for highway, air traffic control, and, yes, high speed rail projects, that would lead to the «immediate» creation of jobs and give a boost to the economy.

In theory, a plan that eliminated tax breaks for oil companies and channeled the funding towards high speed rail projects that generated thousands of new jobs seems like a fantastic idea.

Two candidates for governor made opposing high speed rail projects in their states a central part of their campaign — Scott Walker in Wisconsin and John Kasich in Ohio both claimed that high speed rail was too expensive, and a waste of taxpayer money.

Not exact matches

Some worry China's high - speed rail experiment will lead to a debt crisis, since the mammoth project has already saddled China's railway ministry with US$ 150 billion in debt.

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.

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.

China has already spent approximately $ 180 billion to complete various projects, but many billions more will go toward building roads, ports, dams, high - speed rail, airports and more — all to «enhance regional connectivity,» as President Xi Jinping put it, and strengthen China's economic clout.

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?

Expect eventual success for the One Belt, One Road Initiative — the world's largest construction project, estimated to cost $ 80 trillion dollars — linking the Asian mainland, (including Central Asia) with Europe via high speed rail, communications links and vibrant financial trading platforms.

It is the second piece of proposed legislation in the Queen's Speech covering high speed rail; the other being the high speed rail (preparation) bill which provides commitment to funding the project and will need to pass through Parliament before this bill.

The business case for High Speed Rail 2 (HS2) was dealt a body - blow today, with the publication of a report which raises serious questions about the research which has gone into the project.

There'll be more than enough time to talk about politics in the future, but for now obviously the important thing is making sure that we get projects like high speed rail and as much funding for upstate New York.»

No wonder the government's High Speed Rail 2 (HS2) project has plenty of advocates — and enemies.

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.

«We have secured investment to allow us to go ahead with important projects such as high speed rail, support for ultra-low carbon cars and major road - building and public transport programmes.»

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