Entries tagged with High Speed Rail
Call for Proposals: Life at the Speed of Rail
April 25, 2011
The Van Alen Institute is hosting a design contest for high speed rail ideas. Life at the Speed of Rail aims to explore the impacts of high speed rail at all levels of planning during this "critical moment for high speed rail." Submissions to the contest, which asks,…
Is High Speed Rail a Good Investment?
July 29, 2009
Harvard's Ed Glaeser weighs in with the first of three blog posts on the topic. He urges serious cost benefit analysis, writing, "Large infrastructure projects are complicated things that all have hundreds of consequences, some good and some bad. It is easy to come up with good and bad…
Ray LaHood Rides the Bullet Train
May 30, 2009
Found this good news item in my Inbox today from the Midwest High Speed Rail Association:
US transport boss rides Spanish bullet train "Spain showed off its bullet train system on Friday, giving the U.S. transportation secretary a…
High Speed Rail a Priority for White House
April 16, 2009
President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Sec. of Transportation Ray LaHood held a press conference today to announce a new U.S. push to transform travel in America, creating high-speed rail lines from city to city, reducing dependence on cars and planes and spurring economic development.
The President laid…
Obama and High Speed Rail
April 15, 2009
President Barack Obama’s national high-speed rail (HSR) master plan will be announced Thursday, April 16, at 9:00 a.m. EDT.
Scott Bernstein, president of the Center for Neighborhood Technology who spoke at the CEOs for Cities November, 2008 meeting in Chicago and who has been invited to attend the announcement, said…
A Rail Corridor That Makes Sense?
April 9, 2009
Interesting details from St. Paul's pursuit of high speed rail by way of the Midwest High Speed Rail Association:
A faster train on a 'shovel-ready' route from St. Paul to Chicago
By Jim McDonough, Chris Coleman and Kristofer Johnson
A National Strategy for Rail
April 9, 2009
After two days of meetings in Abu Dhabi that included a long series of convenings on public transport, this story in the The Economist hits home.
"France, Japan, Spain, Germany, all have trains that zoom through the countryside at speeds up to 217mph (350kph). America has one 'high-speed' rail…
Thank You, Mr. President
February 11, 2009
This just in from the Midwest High Speed Rail Association...
"The Senate approved the stimulus package today. The conference committee hopes to have a finished bill on the President's desk by Monday.
"But that isn't why this action alert is so important. Earlier today, President Obama listed high-speed…
Offshoring Audacity
November 9, 2008
The conversations at the Chicago Humanities Festival are always a pleasure. Last weekend, I heard Saskia Sassen (she of Global City fame), her husband and author Richard Sennett (power couple extraordinaire), Ricky Burdett of Urban Age and Philip Enquist, SOM partner in charge of Urban Design…
High Speed Rail Developments
September 19, 2008
News of two new high speed rail projects just landed in my Inbox from Midwest High Speed Rail Association.
Air France-KLM confirms high speed rail discussions
FRANCE: Speaking at the opening of Terminal 2G at Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport on September 9, Air France-KLM President Jean-Cyril Spinetta confirmed that the airline…