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"Don't ask a question unless you can live with the answer" is sometimes wise, but when you have explicitly asked for two plans, and then...

From what I recall from discussing the Corridor procurement, the CETA trade agreement precludes any buy-Canadian and local requirements...

Worth noting that the entire capital cost of the Madrid Norte corridor is only slightly higher than the design/pre-con phase of ALTO is...

The only way to drive down costs is to gain experiences and to learn from early projects. The ALTO way of hiring a consortium to tell us...

To provide some (Spanish) figures for HSR which I discussed previously here on UT: It depends on what you build: GO Expansion is...

The economy-wide returns for local transit and even HSR is supposed to exceed other types of infrastructure investments. I think the...

I believe they once said 4000 km of steel rails, which would be in line with 850 km of double tracked lines (400 km TO + 180 km OM + 270...

Again, these benefits disproportionally fall onto metropolitan rather than urban rural dwellers, who currently live far from highways or...

People (I think) are missing the point. This was always going to be a political wedge issue (PP or someone else) because it's $90...

Even the people being expropriated are not necessarily opponents. My grandfather had a strip of his land acquired by the State of Texas...

It is a poor attempt to phrase a very valid concern: that local folks are expected by (overwhelmingly) metropolitan folks to sacrifize...

The success of Japan's high speed rail network is that it makes connections to local trains that feed it and the fast and slow services...

Shame they couldn't add a buffet car instead of a buffer car.

I think it’s much more likey that the federal government procures enough long-distance fleet to replace the White River fleet than to...

The operative wording being "portions of" The cost of linking those portions, and routing to avoid all the other portions, will be...