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The day after Japan’s Ambassador to the US pledged to pay half the cost of California HSR at a conference in Los Angeles, a delegation from China was in Fresno to look at the city and plans for HSR. Report from ABC/30 in Fresno: From CBS 47: Members of the China Railway Construction Corporation visited [...]
Yesterday I attended the Japanese government sponsored high speed rail seminar in Los Angeles. Led by the Japan International Transport Institute (JITI) and their country’s passenger rail operators and manufactures, the conference was an impressive push for California HSR to utilize Japanese knowledge, equipment, and perhaps most critically, financing. Japan’s ambassador to the United States, [...]
The California high speed rail project had a turbulent year in 2010, but it undoubtedly finished on a high note, winning more federal funding and consolidating public support by selecting the first route that will be constructed. As we begin 2011, and prepare to swear in a governor who first brought the idea of HSR [...]
The Wall Street Journal reports that Siemens and Kawasaki are angry with China for trying to resell to California HSR tech those two companies licensed to China for their own HSR project: California’s state government has similar concerns. The state is interested in getting Chinese help to build a planned high-speed railway, but may run [...]
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