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High Speed Train

Build This: A Real Infrastructure Policy for America

Mike Signer | Posted 10.28.2009 | Green

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Mike Signer

Thanks to the Obama administration, the federal government is preparing to invest $8 billion in building high-speed railways.

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Train Replacing Plane: It's Not Insane

Graham Hill | Posted 09.05.2009 | Green

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Graham Hill

The simplified check-in, security, and city-center to city-center service provided by trains will naturally cause many people to switch from flying.

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Where a Train Beats a Plane: Lessons for the U.S. From Spain's High-Speed Rail

Kirsten Dirksen | Posted 07.13.2009 | Green

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Kirsten Dirksen

The train takes an hour and a half longer than the plane flight between the Barcelona and Madrid, but travelers are opting for the train because it travels from city center to city center, is reliable and nearly always on time.

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Ryan Grim

Cantor Caught Celebrating High-Speed Rail After Ridiculing It

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 04.28.2009 | Politics

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While the stimulus was being debated in January, House Minority Whip Eric Cantor called a group of reporters into his office to outline the GOP's obje...

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Disneyland-Las Vegas Levitating Train Just $12B Away

BloggingStocks.com | Tom Barlow | Posted 04.17.2009 | Business

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File this under Only in America; the recently-passed national transportation bill includes $42 million to fund further research on a proposed Anaheim ...

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