“State leaders are determined to connect Ohio’s three largest cities by passenger rail as early as next year, an idea that Gov. Ted Strickland endorsed in his State of the State address Wednesday. The so-called 3-C corridor was abandoned in 1971, a consequence of falling ridership and the breakdown of the national rail network. Columbus, [...]
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Columbus Ohio may be good at creating chain restaurants and the insurance business, but it is not good at public transport. Of course with cheap gas flowing through its veins Columbus has sprawled and built countless highways and no one seemed to care – until now that is. Now that gas is riding up towards [...]
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Surprisingly this didn’t happen on an Amtrak line, instead in France where a train was modified in order to reach this astounding speed, only as a demonstration. Japan had earlier beat this record by a few MPH using magnetically levitated trains, but this was the fastest a conventional train has been and close to apparently [...]
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The Washington Post had an article with five ‘myths’ about suburban expansion, the paving of of America and car travel , namely… Americans are addicted to driving; Public transit can reduce traffic congestion; We can cut air pollution only if we stop driving; We’re paving over America; We can’t deal with global warming unless we [...]
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Here we are in the biggest struggle of our lives and we are funding both sides — the U.S. military with our tax dollars and the radical Islamists and the governments and charities that support them with our gasoline purchases — and you won’t lift a finger to change that. Why? Because it might impose [...]
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I've mentioned several times before how much I like traveling by trains for so many reasons (this being by trains in places that have trains, such as much of Europe) We on the other hand have no such trains, or at least the closest we've come to a highspeed train in a high traffic corridor [...]
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So I’ve have mentioned time to time (especially when I was in Europe likely) about my love of train travel, in that you can catch the train in the downtown instead of treking to a far-away airport (2 hours ahead of course) wait for security and the rest of the headache. Trains, are simple, you [...]
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