high-speed rail
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Protests over Texas high-speed rail take a turn for the ridiculous
Texans don’t want your newfangled trains, Japan.
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True Detective is almost over, and almost everyone is dead
How many people have had to die in this season of True Detective to make California's high-speed rail happen?
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Use this fantasy high-speed rail map to plan your epic train adventure
New York to Chicago? That looks to be about, oh, five or so hours to us.
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2,500-mph train could get you from New York to London in an hour
Nature abhors a vacuum, but transit nerds and people eager to see a science fiction future LOVE IT. That’s because a vacuum is the secret ingredient for this (theoretical, but plausible) superfast train, which could speed under the ocean to get you from New York to London in one hour, or New York to Beijing […]
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This train can launch you into space
Getting into space via shuttle is difficult and expensive. So why not take a train? Startram is a magnetic levitation train that could — theoretically — launch people into orbit for a fraction of the cost.
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California’s high-speed rail gets $1 billion
California is going to have high-speed rail. Despite grumblings about the cost, Gov. Jerry Brown supports it, and now the project, which will link San Francisco and Los Angeles, is getting close to $1 billion from the Department of Transportation. The department came up with this chunk of change and more after other governors (Florida's […]
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High-speed rail that never was: 1910 proposal for S.F. to L.A. in four hours
If you think high-speed rail is some kind of newfangled obsession of liberal elites who would rather not sit in traffic behind SUVs covered in bumper stickers announcing loyalty to their ideological foes, you're only partly right. As early as 1910, inventor Fletcher E. Felts proposed an elevated, high speed railway system to connect Oakland […]
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Critical List: Perry not afraid to sound like an idiot; Koch Industries trading with Iran
"I'm not afraid to say I'm a skeptic about [climate change]." -- Rick Perry, ladies and gentlemen. So fearless.
A Bloomberg investigation found that Koch Industries has paid bribes to obtain contracts and sold Iran petrochemical equipment, in violation of the U.S. trade ban.
Trees are nice. Probably not a great idea to destroy them all.
If you have an electric toothbrush, extra-large fridge, laptop, iPad, iPhone, multiple flat screen TVs, a flat screen monitor, and god knows what else -- you're killing us here!
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Northeast Corridor is getting better rail
Apparently you gotta have rail to make rail. The Northeast Corridor, the one area of the country with high-speed rail service (Acela) and the only part where Amtrak's not just borrowing the tracks from freight companies, is getting $745 million from the Department of Transportation for rail upgrades.