- Local politicians gathered at Main Street Station in downtown Richmond, Virginia, to promote a high speed rail link with Washington, DC. (Times Dispatch)
- An Indianapolis to St Louis high speed rail link could transform Terre Haute the same way the interstate system did 50 years ago. (TH Tribune Star)
- Opposition to California’s high speed rail plan is gathering momentum. (SF Examiner)
- Instead of John Murtha’s “airport for no one,” how about decent rail service to Pittsburgh? (Greater Greater Washington)
- The city of Buffalo could (and should!) be a hub for high speed cargo rail. (Art Voice)
- Japan sends a transportation official to lobby the US to use bullet train technology in its proposed HSR network. (Bloomberg)
- The French government wants to build an express train linking Paris’s city center with Charles De Gaulle airport. (Transport Politic)
- Canadian rail car maker Bombardier is enthusiastic about Obama’s push for a better passenger train network. (Montreal Gazette)
- Georgia continues to lag far behind on rail and as it indulges “an almost cartoonish addiction to roads.” (Creative Loafing)
- Columnist: “I’m all about high-speed rail. Real high-speed rail, I mean—electric trains cruising on dedicated track at 300 km/h, not some kind of watered down diesel chug-a-lugs that slow down at level crossings.” (National Post)
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