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Russian Railways Could Buy 20 Alstom High-Speed Trains -Agency
More here: Russian Railways Could Buy 20 Alstom High-Speed Trains -Agency (Fox News)
In one of his last acts as chairman of the state’s high speed rail authority, Quentin Kopp is proposing that shuttered auto plants be converted into bullet train factories.
Continue here: Call to shift car plants to bullet trains (San Francisco Business Times)
DIVERSIFIED group YTL Corp Bhd ( 4677 ) said it still believes the high-speed bullet train linking Kuala Lumpur to neighbouring Singapore is an economically viable project and hopes the government will reconsider its implementation.
Continue here: YTL: KL-S'pore bullet train project economically viable (Business Times (Malaysia))
Political and business leaders in the southern end of metro Atlanta launched an effort Monday to show Congress they’re serious about building and operating a commuter rail line.
Continue here: Rail backers vow to head off funding deadline (Atlanta Business Chronicle)
A more focused urbanization program could generate an investment of 225 trillion yuan ($32.9 trillion) and maintain rapid economic growth in the next decade, and thus help China shed its export-oriented development model.
More here: Economist sees urbanization as leading growth engine (China Daily)
In one of its last official acts, the Bush administration gave final approval Wednesday evening to the Metrorail extension to Dulles International Airport, putting the once-troubled project’s first phase on track to open in 2013.
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U.S. transportation secretary OKs Dulles rail project (BizJournals)