Comments on: Obama on Right Track with High-Speed Rail

By: Creating “A Better Tomorrow” in America with Sustainable Transportation | TheCityFix.com

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:26:09 +0000

[...] Imagine this: A day trip from Chicago to watch the White Sox play the Tigers in Detroit is easy to arrange because you can book your travel reservations and monitor transit connections using your smartphone. And of course, the 300-mile journey is much faster than it used to be, because of a new high-speed rail line that connects to a light rail system in Detroit, leading you straight to Comerica Park. (See what I had to say about inter-city rail travel here.) [...]

By: State of the Union: Billions of Dollars for High-Speed Rail, But What About Other Modes? | TheCityFix.com

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 04:26:01 +0000

[...] railways bring big benefits (see EMBARQ Senior Transport Engineer Dario Hidalgo’s analysis here.) But missing from Obama’s “state of the union’s infrastructure” portion of [...]

By: The Illusive Dream of Modern American Rail | The Green Economy Post: Green Careers, Green Business, Sustainability

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:12:07 +0000

[...] was a frenzy last April, when President Obama committed $8 billion in stimulus funds to improve the country’s train network and asked Congress [...]

By: The Illusive Dream of Modern American Rail | TheCityFix.com

The Illusive Dream of Modern American Rail | TheCityFix.com — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:02:02 +0000

[...] was a frenzy last April, when President Obama announced in April committed $8 billion in stimulus funds to improve the country’s train network and asked [...]

By: Worldchanging Interview: Nancy Kete on the Future of the American Transportation System - Go Green - SustainLane

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:33:58 +0000

[...] other than driving and flying. Prove out the concept with truly high speed rail, and then as people see the benefit of it, the demand for it in other places might increase.In addition, we have to think about tolls and [...]

By: THE CITY FIX: Exploring Sustainable Solutions to the Problems of Urban Mobility » Blog Archive » GOOD Magazine: “Reinventing Our Wheels”

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:43:24 +0000

[...] for high-speed rail. (EMBARQ Director Nancy Kete and Senior Transport Engineer Dario Hidalgo want the same thing.) Bryn Davidson of Dynamic Cities explains the “peak road” crisis (”we have as [...]

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 05:51:43 +0000

Well the plans of Obama sounds interesting but there is lacking funds. Acording to my calculations there should be at least 44 Mia USD per year to start the project in reasonable time.