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The Wall Street Journal seems to be trying to stir up some controversy with this report about Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood’s comments about airlines and high speed rail. LaHood was speaking at an FAA conference and was asked by airlines about HSR. His response was that airlines should support HSR, but the set-up by Scott [...]

Mar 12th, 2010 | Filed under Uncategorized

UPDATE: Mica now claims he was “misquoted”. Original post begins here: That’s the claim of Congressman John Mica, Republican from Florida: Florida is one of four finalists in the running for billions of federal stimulus dollars to build high-speed rail, U.S. Rep. John Mica said Friday. California, Texas and the Chicago area also remain in [...]

Dec 20th, 2009 | Filed under Uncategorized

by Rafael a mixed bag of HSR-related news today, some new, some that fell through the cracks over the past week or two. The Trade Commission of Spain in Chicago is hosting free webinar on HSR on Tuesday November 10 at 2pm Eastern. Note that Patentes Talgo S.A. recently inked a deal to set up [...]

Oct 14th, 2009 | Filed under Uncategorized

For much of the last week we’ve been consumed with the news coming out of the Bay Area, from the Menlo Park Town Hall to the Atherton v. CHSRA decision (which both occurred on Wednesday, making that one of the more HSR-heavy days I’ve had lately). But I wanted to pause for a moment to [...]

Sep 2nd, 2009 | Filed under Uncategorized