Will the Congressional Remix Affect the Chance of High Speed Rail in your region?
There really hasn’t been much new in US rail for sixty years or more - sure we use computer controls now, but high speed rail is tech we are failing in, and falling miserably behind with.
The quickest way to convert to a post American world is to let other countries take the lead in transport tech — and that’s exactly where we are headed. It has always been government’s role to pioneer new tech, and business’ role to move in and settle, we really aren’t doing well with either atm…
Officials with the California High-Speed Rail Authority expressed concern about a plan to pull $2 billion in stimulus funds but remain optomistic the train will be built.
The Authority plans to run trains on several miles of track through the San Gabriel Valley by 2035 and hopes to have a San Francisco to Los Angeles route in place by 2020.
But the ascendancy of Republicans in the House of Representatives who oppose the Obama Administration’s signature transportation initiative could quickly derail federal funding.
“We’re very aware that getting additional federal funding is an ongoing challenge,” authority spokeswoman Rachel Wall said. “A lot of new politicians and new elected officials are taking office and what we’re eager to do is continue sitting down with more of them, we take it as an invitation to continue dialogue.”