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High-speed rail
Peter Calthorpe on "Why California needs high-speed rail"
Submitted by Ben Schulman on Tue, 01/10/2012 - 5:07pmCNU co-founder Peter Calthorpe writes of high-speed for California as "the investment we cannot afford not to make."
Read the whole post for the San Francisco Chronicle by clicking here.
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Obama seeking to spend $53 Billion on High-Speed Rail
Submitted by MattBerggren on Wed, 02/09/2011 - 9:49amJoe Biden announced yesterday that the Obama administration is going to request $53 billion for high-speed rail over the next six years. Check out Time's article.
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Ed Glaeser Interview in Grist
Submitted by Sam Newberg - J... on Sat, 02/05/2011 - 12:49pmCheck out this excellent interview of Ed Glaeser in Grist magazine. In it, Glaeser discusses his new book, Triumph of the City." Interesting is his argument against the notion that the city is not where true AMerican ideals reside.
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Madison High-Speed Rail
Submitted by Sam Newberg - J... on Thu, 12/16/2010 - 1:44pmHere is another excellent article in the Capitol Times about what Madison loses by having Wisconsin send back its $800 million for a rail link between Madison and Milwaukee.
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Ohio and Wisconsin Lose High-Speed Rail Money
Submitted by Sam Newberg - J... on Sat, 12/11/2010 - 6:28pmWisconsin and Ohio lost their combined $1.2 billion in stimulus dollars to make passenger rail improvements that were intended to eventually be part of the Midwest high-speed rail network. According to the New York Times, the funding will be rerouted to other states, primarily California and Florida... read more »
High Speed Rail
Submitted by Sam Newberg - J... on Tue, 11/23/2010 - 11:58amCNU believes high-quality intercity rail service is part of a complete transportation system, and is bemoaning the election setbacks for high-speed rail, notably in Wisconsin and Ohio.
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#CNU17 In Search of a Vision for High-Speed Rail
Submitted by Ruth Walker on Thu, 06/11/2009 - 9:20pmHere's a change New Urbanists can believe in: The new stimulus program gives 40 percent of the transportation money to rail, and only 60 percent to highways. This is a real shift
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Michael Moore says farewell to GM ... and cars?
Submitted by Jon Davis on Mon, 06/01/2009 - 12:21pmIn the wreckage of General Motors, Michael Moore senses salvation: The demise of GM as we’ve known it offers a tremendous opportunity to catch up to the rest of the world where high-speed passeng
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Obama: All aboard high-speed rail
Submitted by Jon Davis on Thu, 04/16/2009 - 12:49pmProving he is serious about (finally) developing high-speed rail in the United States, President Obama Thursday released his Vision
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