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US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has been touring European HSR systems in recent days and is coming away impressed: Spain’s bullet train system is a model to follow as America plans how to spend the money the government is injecting to stimulate the economy, the U.S. transportation secretary said Saturday…. The Spanish network is likely [...]
One of the best train bloggers out there is DoDo, and over at the European Tribune he offers one of his best pieces yet – an examination of the AVE system’s ridership growth and a comparison to other HSR systems around the world. He draws two key conclusions, which I’ll explore in some detail below [...]
San Francisco mayor and candidate for California governor Gavin Newsom is in France this week and toured the TGV, hoping to boost his profile on sustainable transportation. He also took the occasion to reiterate support for an HSR tunnel to the Transbay Terminal: San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom took a tour of the French high [...]
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 [...]
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