A major development in Illinois could ripple far beyond the Midwest—reshaping how America thinks about high-speed and intercity rail. Just minutes before the Illinois General Assembly’s spring session ended on Saturday, May 31, the Senate passed a sweeping transit...
Newsletter 6/6/25: A Path for California High-Speed Rail
Yes, Mr. Secretary, There is a Viable Path for CA High-Speed Rail
This week, the U.S. Department of Transportation notified the California High Speed Rail Authority that it intends to claw back roughly $4 billion in federal funds for the Los Angeles – San Francisco high-speed line.
The public announcement: “No viable path forward.”
And yet, his description of the path to getting the air traffic control problem solved would also apply to California High Speed Rail.
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New York to Chicago – A Transformative Proposal
Make no small plans. In the same 20 years that it would take to design and build high-speed rail between Chicago and St. Louis, Milwaukee, or Detroit, a wider-ranging effort could instead design and build a line of national scope and importance. Industry and government are equally capable of planning small projects and megaprojects. If it would take us the same 20 years to fight for a short line as for a long one, we should go big. We should aspire to meet the moment and demand the project the country really needs: a high-speed line connecting Chicago and New York.
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From Seoul to Busan: What Dead Time Tells Us About Travel
Dead time in transportation is time that is not available for the execution of normal tasks. Time that is spent standing in a queue, or waiting for something to happen is dead time. This concept has been written about before and can be used to construct a framework to evaluate different transportation options for journeys of various lengths.
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How the Railways Will Fix the Future
When: July 11, at 11am CT
Speaker: Gareth Dennis, engineer and author of How the Railways Will Fix the Future
Engineer and writer Gareth Dennis will join us from the UK to discuss his new book How the Railways Will Fix the Future. In it, he looks at the history of railways (including the role they have played in extraction and exploitation) but focuses on their power to tackle issues facing us today and to shape a better future. Topics for discussion include lessons to learn from global railway operations on what works best long-term, and what this might mean in the United States.
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