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Alstom has signed a deal with the government of Iraq to build a high speed rail link connecting Baghdad and Basra: Basra is approximately 450km (280 miles) south-east of Baghdad and the proposed line would involve a 650km network, Alstom says. The line would handle speeds of up to 250km/h (155 mph). The deal is [...]
Over at the California Labor Federation blog, Fresno Assemblymember Henry Perea writes about his bill AB 16 that would push the California High Speed Rail Authority to buy Californian as much as possible: I introduced Assembly Bill 16, High Speed Rail Jobs, with the goal of keeping HSR funds in California. This bill will require [...]
Over at the Fresno Bee, Tim Sheehan – who has become one of the state’s leading reporters on the high speed rail beat – has a good article on China’s role in possibly funding the California high speed rail system: China’s not alone. Eight nations have agreements with the California High-Speed Rail Authority to share [...]
The new CHSRA CEO will be announced at today’s CHSRA Board Meeting in Sacramento, and according to the LA Times it will be Alstom executive Roelof van Ark. My own sources have confirmed this as well. From the article: Roelof van Ark, president of Alstom Transportation Inc., a subsidiary of a French-based conglomerate, is scheduled [...]
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