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Credit: Andy Singer

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This #TransitThursday we have LOTS to celebrate! This week marks the 50th anniversary of National Transportation Week (#TranspoWeek).

What’s National Transportation Week, you ask?

Well, 50 years ago, before #TransitThursday, a woman named Charlotte Jones Woods, who wanted to educate students...

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High Speed Rail - awesome experience going on it again tomorrow

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From wejetset magazine:

China’s Harmony breaks 302 MPH.

Read more.

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If California/America doesn’t get high speed rail..  US is gonna lag way behind.

I always fly home from SD to the Bay. 1.5h flight time. Convenient. Definitely beats an 8h drive. But airplanes—heavy polluters. I’d (and I’m sure many others would) like another choice of transportation.

If California HSR: San Diego to SF Bay Area: 4.5h.  Train travel: no security check. don’t need to get to the station an hour early. even more convenient! less pollution. etc.

There’s so much more to HSR, and I’m not an expert, but: California voters voted for this! Can we get this built already???! There will be $$$$$ out of this, I’m sure.

photos: The french high speed train my mom and I took from Zürich to Paris, aug.2010.

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lez get dis dun.

kk

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$4.25 and higher for a gallon of fucking gasoline? Are you serious?

It’s getting to the point where one or more of the following needs to occur:

The car, as we know it, is totally and fundamentally reinvented. With the insane advances in technology over the last 20 years alone, we could’ve gone...

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wowwww.........

Wuhan Train Station part if China’s high speed rail system. This makes me feel tiny and insignificant. 

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The need for a new generation of transportation improvements in California is clear. Today, the state’s transportation systems are straining to meet current demand. Congestion on roads results in $18.7 billion annually in lost time and wasted fuel. Air flights between the Los Angeles and San...

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passing this huge thing around in class right now.

The PEIS (preliminary environmental impact statement/report) of the LA to San Diego via Inland Empire segment of CA high speed rail. 

yes.. just one segment of the whole CA HSR. the preliminary EIR.

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California High Speed Rail ridership ramp-up as predicted from European HSR systems.

from ch. 5 of the Draft 2012 Revised Business Plan (pdf).

finally finished reading the 210 pg. pdf last night. Ask me something.