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Council on Environmental Quality, U.S. Department of Transportation Announce Effort to Cut Costs, Fast Track Construction and Job Creation for High-Speed Rail Projects in the Northeast Corridor

Announce Effort to Cut Costs, Fast Track Construction and Job Creation for High-Speed Rail Projects in the Northeast Corridor Today, the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) and the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) announced a pilot project aimed at expediting the environmental reviews for high-speed passenger rail service in the Northeast Corridor through an innovative and more efficient process. Through this pilot project, CEQ and DOT will work with stakeholders to identify efficiencies to speed the environmental review process that will inform selection of service types and station locations for high-speed rail in the Northeast Corridor.  The pilot will engage Federal, state and local governments and the public ...

Latest Awards Bring US Closer to National High-Speed Passenger Rail Network

high-speed rail one step closer to reality with $2.02 billion in targeted investments . And I am thrilled. Today we are advancing President Obama's historic high-speed rail blueprint through 22 carefully selected projects that will create jobs, boost manufacturing, and spur development while laying the foundation for our future economic competitiveness. We are providing two billion dollars to 15 states and Amtrak to help build out America's high-speed rail network, enabling people ... the President's plan to connect 80 percent of the nation to high-speed rail in the next 25 years, and they responded with a loud and clear, "Yes!" And it's no wonder.  High-speed rail offers significant economic and practical benefits ...

Benefits of High-Speed Rail Draw A Crowd

Ed. note: This was originally posted on the Department of Transportation blog . Since the Department of Transportation announced the availability of an additional $2.4 billion for high-speed rail projects last month , governors ... total of those requests is nearly $10 billion, more than four times what we have available.  Why is demand for high-speed rail support so high? Because elected officials have seen the immediate benefits of jobs where rail work has already ... to build or expand operations in the U.S. should they participate in high-speed rail projects.  They know that our Buy America requirements ensure they'll be using American-made supplies and materials, so U.S. companies, workers, and communities ...

Bringing High-Speed Rail to America

Posted on February 08, 2011 at 07:52 PM EST

Type: A Strong Middle Class, Blog Post, Includes Video

of giving 80 percent of Americans access to high-speed rail within 25 years.  The President is proposing to invest $53 billion over the next six years to continue construction of a national high-speed and intercity passenger rail network, which will create ... . (Official White House Photo by David Lienemann) Building a national high-speed rail network is a key part of this Administration’s plan to out-build, out-innovate, and out-compete the rest of the world.  As Vice President Biden said ... than our competition, there’s no way we’re going to remain the most prosperous and productive country in the world. But why high-speed rail?  Why not build more highways and airports? Look at it this way: in dense, highly populated regions ...

DOT Awards $2.4 Billion to Continue Developing 21st Century High-speed Passenger Rail Corridors

. With these 54 projects in 23 states, we're moving full-speed ahead toward a nationwide high-speed rail system . President Obama signed the Recovery Act to build bridges between the Americans who needed jobs and the infrastructure jobs that needed doing. One of those jobs was creating a 21st century rail system in the United States. The $8 billion in the Recovery Act for high-speed rail was step one, a down payment on a national network that, within 25 years, will give 80 ... and forty minutes. Or Chicago to St. Louis in two hours. Or Tampa to Orlando in 55 minutes. The intense demand for high-speed rail dollars demonstrates just how important this historic initiative is. We received 132 applications for $8 ...

Vice President Biden Announces Six Year Plan to Build National High-Speed Rail Network

of giving 80 percent of Americans access to high-speed rail within 25 years, as outlined in his State of the Union address. The proposal will place high-speed rail on equal footing with other surface transportation programs and revitalize America’s domestic rail manufacturing industry by dedicating $53 billion over six years to continue construction of a national high-speed and intercity passenger rail network.  As a part of President Obama’s commitment to winning the future by rebuilding America ... to convenient high speed rail for more Americans.”   As the first step in this comprehensive, six-year plan, the President’s Budget for the coming fiscal year would invest $8 billion in expanding Americans’ access to high-speed passenger rail service ...

President Obama Delivers on American High-Speed Rail

Recovery and Reinvestment Act High-Speed and Inter-city Passenger Rail grants. The investments we announce today make rail a viable transportation alternative in many regions. With this historic $8 billion investment by President Obama, we are jump-starting American High-Speed rail. The bulk of today's awards go to new, large-scale high-speed rail programs--projects such as Florida, with $1.25 billion to develop a high-speed rail corridor between Tampa and Orlando with trains running up to 168 miles per ... investments, we are also awarding several grants for improvement projects and planning. These efforts on existing routes and emerging corridors will lay the groundwork for future high-speed and intercity rail development.  I've said it before, and I ...

A Vision for High Speed Rail

Posted on April 16, 2009 at 12:50 PM EST

Type: Audio/Video

Joined by famed rail enthusiast Vice President Biden, the President releases his vision for high speed rail as funded by the Recovery Act and the coming budget. White House, April 16, 2009. (public domain) ...

A Vision for High Speed Rail

Posted on April 16, 2009 at 12:20 PM EST

Type: The Recovery Act, Blog Post, Includes Video

you can imagine," said the Vice President, a noted rail enthusiast, before introducing the President for the release of his strategic plan for high speed rail in America.  Revolving around the $8 billion in the Recovery Act and the $1 ... -in-the-sky vision of the future.  It is now.  It is happening right now.  It's been happening for decades.  The problem is it's been happening elsewhere, not here.  In France, high-speed rail has pulled regions from isolation, ignited growth, remade quiet towns into thriving tourist destinations.  In Spain, a high-speed line between Madrid and Seville is so successful that more people travel between those cities by rail than by car and airplane combined.  China, where service began just two years ago, may have more ...

One Step Closer to the Future on High-Speed Rail

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