That the US invests less in passenger rail than Europe or Asia is obvious. Less well known is that with its smaller budget, Amtrak also buys more expensive stuff : Unfortunately, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood’s recent announcement of a $562.9 million loan to Amtrak to buy new locomotives...

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Burning the Midnight Oil for Living Energy Freedom Two stories over the last week underlined the determination of the radical right wing that dominates the Republican Party to sabotage America’s future and betray our national security and the interests of our children and grandchildren: T...

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“High Speed Rail is Dead,” Aaron Renn announced earlier this week on New Geography . FRA regulations are a mess. The money’s been spread too thin. A couple governors torpedoed projects. And conventional speed lines of 110 mph are being sold as high speed. Those are all nails in ...

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Advocates were ecstatic when President Obama had $8 billion for high speed rail put into the stimulus bill. His administration planned to make HSR one of the cornerstones of its infrastructure investment program. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood visited Europe to check out HSR there in pers...

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Burning the Midnight Oil for Progressive Populism Chairman Mica says : this proposal maximizes the value of our available infrastructure funding through better leveraging, streamlining the project approval process, attracting private sector investment, and cutting the federal bureaucracy, ... Mo...

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There has been speculation for months now that the House Republicans’ transportation bill proposal would be terrible for transit, biking, and walking. And sure enough, John Mica didn’t disappoint. If enacted, the House GOP's transportation bill proposal would deal a huge blow ...

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[ If you’ve spent any time around urbanist blogs, you’ve no doubt come across Alon Levy, one of the most prolific commenters around. Now that he’s a newly minted PhD - congrats! - he’s back to writing his own blog, Pedestrian Observations , which is a must for the serious ur...

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Three articles from the transit/urbanist blogosphere on a rather important topic. Yonah at The Transport Politic on whether and to what extent the transit/urbanist community is abandoning mobility goals and social justice in search of gentrification; Alon Levy at Pedestrian Observations ...

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» House Republicans suggest putting Amtrak’s primary line up for bids, but faith in the private sector is not enough to promote this change. House Representative John Mica, a conservative Republican from central Florida and the Chairman of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure...

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