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LaHood Faces Off With GOP Senator Over High-Speed Rail, Livability
When Cabinet secretaries appear in front of Congress' appropriations
committees, which control the annual budgets for each federal agency,
the proceedings tend to be dry affairs dominated by local concerns and
arcane fiscal debates.
March 4, 2010
House Lawmakers Hail Transportation Stimulus — But Add Three Caveats
At a House transportation committee hearing today that marked the
one-year anniversary of the Obama administration's economic recovery
efforts, lawmakers offered praise for the stimulus law's impact on
local infrastructure investments even as they hit upon three key areas
of concern with its implementation.
February 23, 2010
New Report Maps a High-Speed Rail Link For Every Major U.S. City
Now that the Obama administration has
awarded $8 billion in high-speed rail grants to more than two dozen
states, with $2.5 billion more coming soon, why not keep thinking big
when it comes to bullet-train expansion?
February 9, 2010
White House Budget Includes $530M for Local Sustainability, $1B for HSR
The White House officially unveiled its $3.8 trillion budget
for the fiscal year 2011 this morning, seeking $1 billion to continue
its high-speed rail investment and $530 million for the transportation
leg of the Obama administration's inter-agency push to promote sustainable planning on the local level.
February 1, 2010
Biden Says High-Speed Rail Money Ignored Politics — Was He Right?
During yesterday's Tampa event awarding
$8 billion in federal rail grants, Vice President Joe Biden pointed to
the two states receiving the biggest share of stimulus money for true
high-speed train projects: Florida and California, both run by GOP
governors.
January 29, 2010
White House Awards $2.3B for California High-Speed Rail
California's bid for a federal high-speed rail network with top speeds exceeding 200 miles per hour is often called the "only true" bullet train proposal on the table -- and the Obama administration agreed today, bestowing $2.34 billion on the Golden State to the delight of lawmakers and rail advocates.
January 28, 2010
Obama Taps High-Speed Rail Winners: Florida, California, Illinois and More
In his
State of the Union address last night, President Obama hinted at what
many in the transportation world have anticipated
all week: Florida's emergence as a winner in the race for a share of
the White House's $8 billion (and growing) high-speed rail fund.
January 28, 2010
Enviro Group Sees State DOTs’ Transport Predictions — and Raises Them
Just before New Year's, the American Association of State Highway and
Transportation Officials (AASHTO), the Washington voice for state DOTs
that's often dubbed the "road lobby," counted down 10 hot topics for 2010.
January 15, 2010
House and Senate Agree on $2.5B for High-Speed Rail — And More
After lengthy negotiations, the House and Senate agreed last night on a massive "omnibus" spending bill [PDF]
that includes $2.5 billion for high-speed rail -- a compromise between
the two chambers -- as well as $150 million for the Obama
administration's sustainable communities effort and $150 million for the Washington D.C. Metro system.
December 9, 2009
General Electric Inks High-Speed Rail Deal With Chinese Government
While President Obama grappled with
political concerns during his trip to China this week, General Electric
was busy signing technology-sharing agreements with Beijing partners --
including a high-speed rail pact that positions GE to leap ahead of its
competitors in the race for business from the Obama administration's
bullet train rollout.
November 18, 2009