December 30, 2008
Construction of a new railway station in Hangzhou began over the weekend, the Ministry of Railways said in a news release yesterday.
The new station, Hangzhou East, which is due to be completed by the end of 2012, is being built at a cost of 12 billion yuan (US$1.75 billion), 5 million yuan more than what it took to build Asia's biggest Beijing South railway station, the release said. But despite costing more, the Hangzhou East railway station will still be smaller in size than Beijing South, an official said.
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December 25, 2008
Transport minister Kazuyoshi Kaneko on Wednesday asked Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) President Masayuki Matsumoto to examine the cost, likely demand and other factors for building a maglev line between Tokyo and Osaka.
The move, based on the Shinkansen railway transport improvement law, represents a step toward introduction of the magnetically levitated trains to link the two cities.
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December 22, 2008
Editorial - The problem with the future is the past.
Nothing demonstrates the point better than transportation, the moving of people and cargo from place to place.
Mind you, I'm no engineer. The last powered vehicle whose inner workings I've ever really understood was the "Diving Sub," a 1950s bathtub toy submarine that ran on baking powder.
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December 18, 2008
In meeting room G of San Diego’s Manchester Grand Hyatt, Neil Cummings was preaching yesterday to the choir—which in this case is the 20th International Conference on Magnetically Levitated Systems and Linear Drives.
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December 16, 2008
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher said this week that if stimulus dollars are flowing, some of it should go to transportation infrastructure rather than the financial industry. And of that infrastructure, Rohrabacher thinks some of it should be going to move cargo containers at local ports using magnetic fields.
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September 16, 2008
PARAMOUNT, Calif., Sept. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- The Board of Directors of the Orangeline Development Authority on September 10, 2008 voted unanimously to enter into a legal services agreement with DLA Piper, one of the world's largest law firms, which will set the stage for raising private investment for the most innovative transportation and development project in Southern California. DLA Piper will coordinate securing the developer consortia agreements that will play a critical role in realizing the $20 billion in private financing the Orangeline Development Authority requires to implement the Orangeline High Speed Maglev Corridor Development Project.
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September 13, 2008
The case for high-speed, low-impact train travel is clear, and many governments have ambitious high-speed train plans in the works. But are they realistic? The reporter who tested America’s first maglev (see “Related Stories” on page 7) now evaluates proposals for the 200-mph trains of the future, in their order on the horizon.
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August 26, 2008
For decades, many American advocates of highspeed train travel have looked longingly at nations such as Japan, France and Germany, dreaming of a day when travelers in the USA would zip from city to city faster than they could drive and nearly as fast as they could fly.
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August 18, 2008
Government authorities in Zhejiang province on east China's seaboard have finally announced that the construction of its section of a much-discussed magnetic levitation train route linking the eastern cities of Shanghai and Hangzhou will go ahead in 2010.
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July 21, 2008
U.S. Sen. John F. Kerry is taking aim at the Acela bullet train, saying the 8-year-old line meant to zip passengers between Boston and Washington is riddled with speed and safety issues that have thrown its swift mission off track.
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July 03, 2008
Short-haul flights, usually defined as flights of 500 miles or less, are the wallowing pigs of carbon emissions from transportation. Pretty much the only worse alternative over that distance is 250 Hummer drivers going it solo. Unfortunately for most Americans, unlike the Europeans and Japanese, there is no congenial third way to travel - like, for instance, high-speed rail.
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June 19, 2008
A new study estimates a round-trip ticket on a bullet train between Chattanooga and Nashville would cost about $75 and the trip would take about 50 minutes each way without stops.
Building the high-speed train between the cities would cost $5.4 billion, officials said Wednesday as they publicly unveiled the study.
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June 10, 2008
President Bush has signed legislation that makes "technical corrections" to the 2005 SAFETEA-LU bill, clearing the way for an estimated $1 billion in delayed highway projects to move forward. Bush signed the measure on June 6, without commenting on the bill.
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May 23, 2008
It was one of the worst accidents in Germany in recent years: 23 people died and 10 were injured when a Transrapid maglev train hit a maintenance vehicle. A German court has ruled two track managers were partly responsible for the tragedy.
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May 08, 2008
How is it that the United States, arguably the richest, most technologically advanced nation on the Earth, does not have a national high-speed rail system? Why is there a rail gap? What went wrong, and how can we get on track?
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