Posted on Monday April 20th by Jebediah Reed | 107
- Connecticut is entitled to $3 billion in stimulus funds–but has received only $25 million to date. State and local officials are blaming bureaucratic delays. (NYT)
- Spain’s high speed train system is the envy of the world. There are a few naysayers though, including critics who say that freight rail has been shortchanged, meaning truck-clogged roads. (WSJ)
- Time magazine takes it’s turn looking at high speed rail in the US. The takeaway? “”We’re not going to wake up in a year and see a bullet train. But we are going to see much faster service for relatively little money.”
- The government is giving out $3.3 billion in grants for building the smart grid. But first everyone has to sit down and figure out a set technical standards. (LA Times)
- Once again: why, why, why doesn’t the administration’s rail plan involve a high speed corridor between Dallas and Houston? (Matthew Yglesias)
- Speeding killed 13,543 on American roads in 2006 — the vast majority of those deaths were on lower speed non-Interstate roads. (How We Drive)
- In areas hard hit by the real estate collapse, a new word has entered the local vocabulary: “undevelopment” (LAT via streetsblog)
April 25th, 2009 at 1:03 pm
Jeebus: “Many high-speed train initiatives have been derailed due to their exorbitant cost — recent rail construction in Spain averaged some $22 million per mile.”