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Posted on Friday June 19th by Sindhu Sundar | 59

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  • A draft outline of the next transportation bill includes $50 billion for high speed rail. Ka-Pow! Of course, whether we’ll actually have a new bill before 2011 is another question… (Transportation for America)
  • Is 110 mph “high speed”? Not in Europe, Japan or China — but it’s now the official definition for federal HSR grant money. (StreetsBlog)
  • Britain unveiled the Javelin, the country’s first high-speed commuter rail service. Till now the trip from London to Kent has been 90 minutes–but at 140 mph it’s so quick authorities decided there wasn’t even time for breakfast service. (Guardian - pic via)
  • Hong Kong is planning the world’s biggest underground high speed rail terminal. The 25-acre facility, slated for completion in 2015, will connect the city to mainland China’s HSR network. (Real Estate Channel)
  • The Midwest and California remain the front runners for landing big chunks of the $8 billion in stimulus funding for HSR. “We are not the caboose on this train,” says Missouri’s governor. (AP)
  • Isreal might not be getting their high-speed trains anytime soon. Runaway costs for tunneling and bridging in rough terrain have temporarily derailed The Jerusalem-to-Tel Aviv high-speed rail project. (Jerusalem Post)
  • Let’s restore passenger rail service to the standard we had in 1927 and dispense the “techno grandiosity” of bullet trains, says Jim Kunstler. (Whiskey & Gunpower)

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2 Responses to “The Daily Dig - High Speed Rail Edition”

  1. t joey Says:
    June 19th, 2009 at 1:21 pm

    If Kunstler purportedly likes how everything was say in 1890, when people were genuinely productive and everyone lived in a city, village or on a farm, he needs to build himself a way-back machine and press GO. He can take all his tangential rant with him too. He is just as annoying as George Will, but from the exact opposite spectrum. I’m not a – find you in the middle kind of guy – but Kunstler certainly has the awesome power to repel you from the serious arguments about end of oil, climate change, etc.

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