"We are not opposed to the need for higher speed rail per se and fully acknowledge the need for strategic improvement to the national rail infrastructure, but cannot agree with the current proposals as the economic and environmental benefits are not at all credible, " it said.

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To take it a step further, according to USDOT statistics, pipelines are 451 times safer than rail on a per-mile basis.

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It was estimated in the EIS, rail would cause 8% more greenhouse gas per year than the XL pipeline.

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Network Rail said there would be an extra train per hour on the Coventry to Nuneaton line to help ease congestion.

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In January, Network Rail said there would be an extra train per hour on the Coventry to Nuneaton line to help ease congestion.

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Likewise in China, there are a growing number of super-high speed rail lines that can travel above 300 km per hour between major cities, such as Beijing and Shanghai.

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National Express said it would offer 282.5 pence in cash and 0.375 of its shares for every Prism Rail share plus a special dividend of 40 pence per share.

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Before Taylor went to Bethlehem, a team of seventy-five men loaded ninety-two-pound pigs of iron onto rail cars at a rate of twelve and a half tons per man per day.

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The air quality would certainly be a lot worse if the commuters turned to conventional buses. (Calculated on a per passenger journey basis, experts say, buses emit 100 times the level of respirable particles generated by mass rail.) Ditto for congestion.

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