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As we’ve been focusing on the details of HSR funding or its implementation on the Peninsula, it’s worth returning to the big picture – HSR’s potential to transform transportation in California. Last week’s issue of The Economist examined Spain’s HSR success, showing how that country’s heavy investment in high speed rail is paying significant rewards: [...]
Over at the European Tribune DoDo offers an excellent look at how globalization has affected the manufacturing of HSR trainsets. This clearly has implications for our own high speed rail system, since most of the manufacturers who would provide trainsets for California HSR are based in other countries (though I hope and expect they will [...]
That’s how the Guardian describes the dramatic success of Spanish high speed trains (h/t to lydik in the comments to the last post): Spain’s sleek new high-speed trains have stolen hundreds of thousands of passengers from airlines over the last year, slashing carbon emissions and marking a radical change in the way Spaniards travel. Passenger [...]
luis d. in the comments has been linking to this video produced by RENFE advertising their new Madrid to Barcelona AVE service that opened in February. It’s a great overview of the route, which passes through terrain that is VERY similar to that which our own HSR line will encounter: RENFE also has a great [...]
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