"Based on our company's 45 years of experience with high-speed rail in Japan, bringing high-speed rail to the United States will translate into jobs, " said Mike Finnegan, an executive with US-Japan High Speed Rail and US-Japan Maglev.
To attract new businesses to our shores, we need the fastest, most reliable ways to move people, goods, and information, from high- speed rail to high-speed Internet.
Situated about 12 km west of central Hong Kong, the park will be linked to the airport and the urban area by a spur from the existing high-speed rail line to the airport, and by highway and by ferry.
These include more money for office buildings, improvements to the A38 and a high-speed rail station close to the city.
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Within 25 years, our goal is to have 80 percent of Americans with access to high-speed rail, which could allow you to go to places in half the time it takes by car.
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The third way that we need to invest is in our infrastructure -- everything from new roads and bridges to high-speed rail and high-speed Internet -- projects that create hundreds of thousands of private sector jobs.
The rhetoric from Nicola Sturgeon suggests this is at least symbolic of a willingness to get on with high-speed rail, without having to wait for Whitehall, and England's commitment to it.
Plans to extend Kent's high-speed rail line from Ashford to Ramsgate have been discussed with a government minister.
The Department for Transport in Britain launched a sale of the rights to operate the high-speed rail line that connects London to the Channel Tunnel.
The authors recommend Congress and other authorities use the findings to help decide where to invest in high-speed rail projects and other measures to ease airport congestion.
The government will back plans for high-speed rail links to Manchester and Leeds, Transport Secretary Philip Hammond said.
CalPERS, the Californian state pension fund, owns nearly 13% of Gatwick airport, while two Canadian funds own the operating rights for the high-speed rail link to the Channel Tunnel.
"Today's announcement isn't just about faster trains - high-speed rail will create up to 30, 000 station-supported jobs in Manchester and help to drive productivity in the region, bridging the economic gap between the North and the South, " he said.
These are small-scale automated transports designed as affordable alternatives to light-rail networks, since they run on cheap roads rather than costly rails.
North Carolina received money to start improving existing track and an agreement was signed with rail freight company Norfolk Southern Railways to start exploring a major high-speed rail corridor between Charlotte and Raleigh.
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In a letter to Mayor Bing and Gov. Rick Snyder (via Freemark), the business leaders behind M-1 urge the officials to push forward with the rail line as a complement to the bus-rapid system (BRT).
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Transport Minister Norman Baker has promised to put pressure on Network Rail to make long-term improvements at Cowley Bridge.
As for rail, there's a strong economic case for Scotland to have a high-speed rail link linking it into London, London's airports and markets beyond.
Randal O'Toole, a senior fellow with the CATO Institute, said it is far more cost-effective to save energy by encouraging people to drive more fuel-efficient cars than to build and operate high-speed rail.
Rail franchising was put on hold last year after a decision to award the UK's multi-billion-pound West Coast Main Line rail franchise to FirstGroup was scrapped by the government.
If there's to be high-speed rail linking Glasgow and Edinburgh, it doesn't look so good for the budgets necessary to upgrade rail links between the central belt and both Aberdeen and Inverness.
"We've got some good things that are going, but if the commitment in America is to get to these higher-speed rail programs, then there's going to have to be more help, " says Thelma Drake, Virginia's director of rail and public transportation.
Or his other green-energy proposals, or high-speed rail, or federal-state partnerships to construct more efficient buildings?
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But more ambitiously, Amtrak recently hired consulting firm KPMG to develop a plan for high-speed rail service from Washington, DC to Boston by 2020.
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Another idea is to tear down the shabby buildings in front of grand, Victorian and semi-derelict Peckham Rye rail station to create an airy piazza and shiny new business spaces.
Within 25 years, our goal is to give 80 percent of Americans access to high-speed rail. (Applause.) This could allow you to go places in half the time it takes to travel by car.
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During his two and a half years running Richards Bay Coal Terminal (RBCT) on the northern coast of KwaZulu Natal, Mr Dlamini has done much to improve tense relations with the government and the state-owned rail company that brings coal to the terminal.
Indeed, by encouraging budget airlines to dominate these airports, and only half-heartedly promoting improvements to rail links and runway capacity, it made it difficult for a new hub to emerge.
Within 25 years, our goal is to give 80% of Americans access to high-speed rail, which could allow you go places in half the time it takes to travel by car.
High-speed rail is projected to create thousands and thousands of jobs in our state.
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