Recent Streetsblog LA posts about High Speed Rail

“Shovel Ready” High Speed Rail? CA Is Ahead of the Game

By Damien Newton | | 10 Comments
Photo: Sacramento Bee Yesterday, Vice President Joe Biden, met with governors from eight different states that are competing for High Speed Rail funding.  Streetsblog’s D.C. Correspondent wrote a story about the national implications of the meeting available at our New York site.  While neither Schwarzenegger nor another representative from California was present, there was good […]

Getting Real About High-Speed Rail

By Sarah Goodyear | | No Comments
Today on the Streetsblog Network, member blog Worldchanging has an interview on the future of American transportation with Nancy Kete, a senior fellow at the World Resources Institute and the managing director of EMBARQ, the WRI’s Center for Transport and the Environment. A bullet train is not necessarily a silver bullet. Photo by rikdom via […]

Is the Obama Administration Poised to Push Transit?

By Brad Aaron | | 1 Comment
While President Barack Obama promoted wind power and cap-and-trade legislation, VP Joe Biden spent Earth Day talking up transit. Public radio’s "The Takeaway" reports that Biden held a presser at a bus maintenance facility in Landover, Maryland, to tout a $300 million investment in hybrid buses and other municipal vehicles as part of the federal […]

Rail Across America

By Ben Fried | | 7 Comments
You’ve probably seen this already. It’s the latest graphic representation of the nation’s proposed high-speed rail corridors, and it’s been all over the transportation blogosphere since President Obama stood beside it at a press conference last week. Those corridors are likely to change somewhat as the administration refines its new strategy for high-speed rail, says […]
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