Posted by: Brad Brockschmidt |
You should look at China's system as well, they just introduced a newer, faster train on a new line and they are a country that is roughly the same size as the US. We can learn from their mistakes and take advantage by learning from what they have done correctly.
Posted by: Gresham Fedora |
Highspeed rail will be a major benefit to the country and to our California region. I hope that safety improvements to the current fleet of commuter rail and Amtrak passenger cars will not be given second place or be sacrificed because we need both the high speed rail and safe passenger cars to use now while high speed rail is being set up. We also need good transit systems that will connect the train stations to where people live and work. And, if we are lucky, housing and business will grow up near the train stations providing even easier access. Best wishes, Michael E. Bailey.
Posted by: Michael E. Bailey |
Obama Administration officials are traveling across the country this week to announce funding for the high speed rail projects and discuss how this investment will create local jobs and rebuild the economy.
Posted by: buy r4 dsi |
As a proud american am very much excited and even moreso joyful of these proposals due to their potential to restart the economy and much more on the viability to improve our carbon footprint on the globe. Truely its great news and it couldn't have come any sooner. Now, lets get to work folks and get this party started as the benefits resulting are just enormous.
Posted by: Harrison |
I appreciate your ideas on High-Speed Rail, but I'd like to see SOMETHING in the energy plans that includes natural gas. We have great reserves, so using nat gas in transportation would help us gain energy independence and it would create jobs in infrastructure and transportation industries. I believe there is legislation being considered to have government vehicles use this fuel. I would love to see your department get behind this movement.
Gas vs high speed rail would not be an either/or, since we could do both. I'd also say nat gas vs 'clean' coal technology isn't either/or. We have reserves of both.
Are you at least considering natural gas in your plans if not the legislation, and if not, could you explain why (not?)
Posted by: Judith Ford |
Unfortunately our elected officials, transportation planners and other important policy makers in the country today tend to be affluent Caucasians and want to believe that our dominant transportation policy will never change from what they have grown accustomed to (multiple private motor vehicles per household and ever increasing roadway capacity to carry those vehicles). We expect large future increases in our national Latino population because Caucasian, Asian, African American and other minority populations are not having more than two children per couple as a general trend. Latinos typically have large families, much more so than other groups. They also tend to live in more urban environments, own less cars, drive less, walk more and use public transportation more than their affluent Caucasian counterparts do today. Perhaps even more importantly, we are all getting older. Our senior population as a percentage of our overall population will be growing significantly in future years. They also will be living in more urban environments, driving less, walking more and using public transportation more. Our land use planning folks nationally (Land Use Institute and the American Planning Association) are looking much more closely at what is called a complete streets and/or a livable communities initiative which takes into account transit access and pedestrian facilities and walking access between residential and commercial properties in planning residential and commercial development. In other words, stop planning our residential and commercial environments only for cars!!!!!! Our Public Health officials on a national scale are also starting to connect the overall improvement in public health that is possible when we are able to actually walk on a daily basis between destinations instead of satisfying every daily trip by the use of a private motor vehicle for door to door service.
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