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Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "trains"
How Train Travel Could Make a Comeback
James McCommons, AlterNet. April 2, 2012.
Riding the rails has more advantages than just avoiding rising gas prices.
Why Do Conservatives Hate High-Speed Rail? 5 Reasons Right-Wingers Are Sabotaging Public Transportation Projects
Sarah Jaffe, AlterNet. July 22, 2011.
In addition to busting unions and gutting voting rights, Tea Party governors are refusing federal funding for high-speed rail. What do they have against it?
Vision: Rail Renaissance -- We May Be About to Take a Huge Step Toward Reviving Train Travel
James McCommons, AlterNet. February 11, 2011.
Obama's proposal to invest $8 billion annually is a gamechanger for passenger trains.
Vision: Ready or Not, Our Cheap Oil Economy Is Collapsing and We Need to Embrace High-Speed Rail
Scott Thill, AlterNet. January 24, 2011.
A conversation about high-speed rail's promise, fossil fuel's forsaken future and transforming our current nightmare of American transportation.
VISION: Can a New High-Speed Rail System Save the American Dream?
Scott Thill, AlterNet. January 22, 2011.
America is looking for answers and solutions, and it may have found a good one in the form of an ambitious national high-speed rail network.
Why the Economic Downturn Has Been Good News for Amtrak and the Future of Rail Travel
Jason Mark, AlterNet. June 23, 2009.
A slowing economy has resulted in speedier service for Amtrak trains, which is helping to make the case for more rail funding.
Map of Potential High-Speed Rail Built By the Stimulus
Staff, Huffington Post. February 18, 2009.
Which states will be getting high-speed rail?
Let's Get Get Those Freight Trucks Off the Road and Put America Back on Tracks
Philip Longman, Washington Monthly. January 13, 2009.
A nineteenth-century technology could be the solution to our twenty-first-century problems.