Will New Russian Train Spark U.S. High-Speed Rail Race?

Moscow to St. Petersburg is now a lot quicker.

British High Speed Rail Ushers In a New Era of Travel

This post is part of a series on high speed rail across the world. Make sure to read previous posts on the US, Germany, and France.
England has added itself to the growing list of countries redesigning its transportation paradigm to include high speed rail. With the launch of the Javelin line from London to Kent [...]

High Speed Rail in France: Le TGV — C’est Cool.

Since 1981, France has had a true high speed rail service, the TGV (Train à Grande Vitesse).  We here in the US are only about 30 years behind the French in the regard…and counting.  As US politicians continue to dither on high speed passenger rail, throwing loose change at development, the French corporations like Alstom [...]

US High Speed Rail

The first series of this column was written on high speed rail in America. With an introduction to all the nation’s proposed corridors covered, this series will focus on the state of high speed rail around the world. An examination of already established high speed networks in industrialized countries and growingnetworks in developing countries will be compared and contrasted to what is being done (or just talked about then postponed) around the US. The purpose of this series is to highlight how far America isfalling behind the rest of the world in giving its citizens mobility.