Recent Streetsblog LA posts about High Speed Rail

“Amtrak Joe” Biden, in Philly, Announces a New Plan for High-Speed Rail

By Tanya Snyder | Feb 8, 2011 | No Comments

The Obama administration is taking its infrastructure push on the road. First stop: Philadelphia, to announce a $53 billion plan to invest in high-speed rail. To Vice President Joe Biden, high-speed rail isn’t just another administration initiative. He’s Mr. Amtrak. He gets it. Biden says he’s made 7,900 round trips between Wilmington and Washington on […]

What Will Become of Amtrak If It’s Left Out of Plans to Expand HSR?

By Tanya Snyder | Feb 2, 2011 | No Comments

When President Obama and Secretary LaHood talk about their bold new vision for high-speed rail, you don’t hear them mention the country’s very own train company, which just celebrated ten years of providing the closest thing this country has to high-speed rail service, in the Northeast Corridor. The administration has doled out $10.5 billion so […]

Obama: Europe and Russia Invest More in Roads and Railways Than We Do

By Tanya Snyder | Jan 25, 2011 | No Comments

President Obama made his long-awaited infrastructure push during his State of the Union address – with more information included in an accompanying memo released today (see below). This is what he told Congress: The third step in winning the future is rebuilding America. To attract new businesses to our shores, we need the fastest, most […]

High Speed Rail: Which Corridors Have the Best Chance for Success?

By Tanya Snyder | Jan 13, 2011 | No Comments

Perhaps it goes without saying, but when you’re advocating for something, it’s not enough to make it happen – it has to succeed. If you get what you want and it’s a miserable failure, you’ve made matters far worse for your cause. That’s the quandary some high speed rail advocates find themselves in now. Some […]

LaHood: High Speed Rail Will Be Our Generation’s Legacy

By Tanya Snyder | Dec 21, 2010 | No Comments

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood published an op-ed in the Sunday edition of the Orlando Sentinel, arguing for a vigorous campaign of high speed rail building. He said, “If we work together, a national high-speed-rail network can and will be our generation’s legacy.” Why run the op-ed in the Sentinel and not a national paper like […]

GOP Demands a Stop to Stim Spending. What Will It Mean for Rail Projects?

By Tanya Snyder | Dec 1, 2010 | No Comments

The incoming Republican head of the Appropriations Committee wants to take back stimulus funds promised to states and localities for much-needed infrastructure programs, including more than $6 billion in transportation funding. High-speed rail projects would take an especially big hit under the plan. Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-CA) has introduced H.R. 6403, the American Recovery and […]

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