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Republicans Seek to Privatize Railroads, Because That Worked So Well Last Time
High-speed rail may be coming to the 437-mile Northeast Corridor, but Amtrak won’t have much to do with it if Republican lawmakers get their way.
Read more »While the U.S. has slashed funding for high-speed rail from its budget, China is making its own cuts to its rail system. Of course, of a completely different kind. China’s Ministry of Railways said that it will reduce the speed of high-speed trains travelling in the region to make the system safer and more affordable.
Read more »The last-minute budget deal that was passed last Friday, may have saved the government from going into a shutdown. High-speed rail, however, didn’t fair as well.
Read more »While Florida’s Republican governor returned federally allocated high-speed rail money, calling it a “waste of taxpayer funds”, Californis is only too happy to ask for it.
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Scott Walker Now WANTS The High-Speed Rail Funds He Rejected In The First Place
- by Ami Cholia
Less than half a year after rejecting federal funds to build a high-speed rail connecting Milwaukee to Madison, Wisconsin governor Scott Walker is now asking for at least $150 million from the feds to upgrade an existing Milwaukee-to-Chicago passenger line.
Read more »With over three Republican governors returning federally allocated high-speed rail money citing high costs, President Obama’s rail proposals are quickly becoming as divisive in Capital Hill as his health care initiative.
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Over 1,100 large and small businesses have expressed interest in California’s high-speed train, the architects of the project said.
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A new report released by the Florida Department of Transportation finds that the high-speed rail line in the state would have made more money and carried more passengers than projected in 2009.
Read more »U.S. PIRG, the federation of state Public Interest Research Groups, has combined two of our favorite things: high-speed rail and Mad Men.
Read more »All attempts to save high-speed rail in Florida were thwarted today as the Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit forcing Governor Rick Scott to take $2.4 dollars of federally allocated money to build the project.
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