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Way too tired from a busy weekend to come up with anything coherent tonight, but I will link to an article in The Independent about a looming battle in Parliament over the route of Britain’s HS2 project linking London to Birmingham: The new Transport Secretary, Justine Greening, will today come under huge pressure to change [...]
A few HSR-related items to start your weekend: • High speed rail will be a boon to California sports fans. Although it won’t solve the problem of Dodger fans attacking Giants fans in the Dodger Stadium parking lot… • Breaking news: NIMBYs come up with excuses to oppose project even though every other HSR system [...]
The new British coalition government is committed to building true high speed rail in the country, linking London to metropolitan areas in the north. They even canceled the planned third runway at Heathrow, leaving them with little other choice but HSR to move people within England (and hopefully to Scotland, although that’s unlikely in the [...]
A couple of items from around the globe: The Washington Post reports China is pulling ahead in the worldwide race for high speed rail – and it is very much a race, since the country that has the largest network gets not only a more affordable and sustainable transportation system, but also gets to develop [...]
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