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The CA HSR system won't be built for a while; it will need several billion dollars from the Federal Government and from private investors. However, there are some bills introduced in Congress that will provide some money for HSR development, so money from there may be on the way. But just the...

There was a podcar conference in Ithaca, NY last September. Ithaca is a college town in upstate New York, home of Cornell University and Ithaca College, but I could not find much on that conference in either the Cornell Daily Sun or the Ithaca Journal. The page on Ithaca, the town describes...

I think that there are two problems here: not enough track capacity and Amtrak's presence not being lucrative enough. So I hope that the politicians mentioned in that article would look for ways of financing capacity improvements. They are in the Illinois delegation to the US Congress, so they...

Someone at lightrailnow.org has slammed that concept rather hard in Personal Rapid Transit – Cyberspace Dream Keeps Colliding With Reality. Furthermore, it would be easier to run such vehicles on regular routes, which is what is done in existing "people-mover" systems. The Morgantown, WV one...