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High-speed rail for India: Has the time finally come?

2014-08-21 01:00:00| Railway Technology

Indias rail industry has suffered from decades of low investment and a long-term policy of subsidised fares. Could the newly elected Prime Minister Narenda Modis majority administration be what the country needs to finally see the implementation of

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$11 billion later, high-speed rail is inching along

2014-08-08 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New York Times: High-speed rail was supposed to be President Obamas signature transportation project, but despite the administration spending nearly $11 billion since 2009 to develop faster passenger trains, the projects have gone mostly nowhere and the United States still lags far behind Europe and China. While Republican opposition and community protests have slowed the projects here, transportation policy experts and members of both parties also place blame for the failures on missteps by the Obama administration...

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California Clears Path for Funding To Get High-Speed Rail Back on Track

2014-07-29 17:27:50| ENR.com: Headline News

Industrial polluters will help underwrite a 20-year funding commitment to pay for an ambitious high-speed rail system.

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Indra to equip Spain's high-speed rail lines with signalling technology

2014-07-25 01:00:00| Railway Technology

IT firm Indra, part of the Adif consortium, has secured a 35m contract to install control, security and signalling technology on high-speed rail lines between Valladolid and Leon, and Venta de Baos and Burgos, in Spain.

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