yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 2/13/2009
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Good news for people who like fast trains as it seems a significant amount of high speed rail funds made it into the stimulus:
And while many initiatives were scaled back as Congress and the White House sought to cut the overall cost, there were some surprise increases, including a ...
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 2/6/2009
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tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com —
The complicated state of the Senate stimulus debate
just got more intense. Sen. Olympia Snowe (ME), one...
of the four Republicans considered genuinely open to cooperation with Democrats on a workable economic recovery bill, just released a statement ...
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The Stimulus Plot Thickens: Tax Break Changes Now on the ...
yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 2/17/2009
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org —
David Rogers has a piece in Politico that
offers a nice summary of the recovery plan’s actual...
high-speed rail provisions and the direct role of the White House in securing them: The $787.2 billion economic recovery bill — to be signed by ...
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Politico’s David Rogers Catches Republicans Lying About ...
fra.dot.gov - 2/13/2009
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fra.dot.gov —
Click on the map for a larger view.
Designated High-Speed Rail Corridors Map (click on the map...
for a larger view) As of January 2002, the FRA has designated ten high-speed corridors under section 1010 of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Act of ...
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FEDERAL RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION : PASSENGER RAIL
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So What If He Did?
Eschaton —
So What If He Did? HSR between LA and Las Vegas makes sense. It's the right distance, there's a lot of traffic between the two, and right-of-way assembly is presumably (this is just a blog post) easier than it would be between a lot of places.
No More Mister Nice Blog —
... Kristol assumes this is pork, the most likely maglev project being per Kristol and The Washington Post) a maglev line between Disneyland and Las Vegas, in Harry Reid's home state of Nevada. Matt Yglesias has argued that maglev money could go to projects in a number of other states.) Donald Douglas's prose is a fairly dense thicket, but he seems not to like the maglev project because it's evidence that "the left wants a general transformation of society to a European social-welfare state (if not a Brezhnevite-Soviet command model), and the increasing nationalization of ...
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