High Speed Rail Quotes

• High-speed rail would revolutionise interstate travel and would also be an economic game-changer for dozens of regional communities along its path.

  Anthony Albanese

  Games, Community, Dozen

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We are also ignoring and underfunding high speed rail which is one of the best ways to move citizens and improve congestion on our highways.

  Corrine Brown

  Moving, Citizens, Way

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• I do not see how we can rationally oppose high speed rail because of the environmental and other costs without considering the social and human consequences of the radical elimination of transportation that this entails.

  Noam Chomsky

  Environmental, Cost, Speed

  Fuente: www.counterpunch.org

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• Human needs are served by a sustainable lifestyle, almost by definition, if humans include coming generations. And a shift to such technologies as high-speed rail instead of maximizing fossil fuel use, and solar energy, is not "relentless resource extraction."

  Noam Chomsky

  Technology, Energy, Needs

  Fuente: www.counterpunch.org

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• We seem to be committing ourselves to an eye wateringly expensive railroad for the few. High speed rail plan is madness.

  Mike Rutherford

  Eye, Railroads, Madness

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• The passage of time is likely to make high-speed rail more and more desirable, making it critical that politicians of today think ahead to tomorrow.

  Anthony Albanese

  Thinking, Today, Tomorrow

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• America is ready for livable communities. America is ready for high-speed rail.

  Greg Abbott

  America, Community, Speed

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• La comunidad "verde", los ecologistas, están preocupados por que todos los coches funcionen de otra manera. Nuestra tecno-grandiosidad nos hace farfullar sobre el tren de alta velocidad -para el que ya no tenemos capital-, pero a nadie le interesa reparar el sistema ferroviario existente, lo que sería mucho menos costoso y enormemente beneficioso para nosotros. En resumen, no tenemos ni idea. Y la vida es trágica. Los despistados suelen sufrir.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Correr, Despistado, Coche

  Fuente: www.terrain.org

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• Obama wants to build such things as smart electrical grids and high-speed rail lines, which will offer big environmental improvements. Another obvious thing is that large-scale project financing is virtually frozen, so a lot of renewable energy projects are on hold. If the system doesn't get unclogged before the developers run out of cash, they will be cancelled. Money matters, and we are racing against time.

  Denis Hayes

  Running, Smart, Obvious Things

  "Entrevista de The Rumpus con Denis Hayes, organizador del Día de la Tierra". Entrevista con Melissa Price, therumpus.net. 22 de abril de 2009.

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• I think one big improvement would be if we somehow made it cheaper and easier for developing countries to learn from the sad experience of some of the developed countries, and also from some of the positive experiences we have of building good transportation systems, like high-speed rail.

  Thomas Pogge

  Country, Thinking, Would Be

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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• Instead of basic roads and bridges, infrastructure spending will go to bloated unions overseeing pie-in-the-sky construction projects like the $30 billion-plus high-speed rail line from Los Angeles to San Francisco, which California officials fully expect to be funded.

  Michelle Malkin

  Bridges, California, Pie

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• Por poco que el presidente Obama sepa o le importe la economía, sabe mucho de política, y especialmente de retórica política. El "tren de alta velocidad" no es más que otro juego de palabras para justificar la continua expansión del gasto público. También lo son palabras como "inversión en educación" o "inversión" en cualquier otra cosa, que sirve al mismo propósito político.

  Thomas Sowell

  Gobierno, Cifras, Política

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• What has to be done today is (1) large-scale conversion (weatherizing , etc.), (2) sharp change in transportation to greater efficiency, like high-speed rail, (3) serious efforts to move to sustainable energy, probably solar in the somewhat longer term, (4) other adjustments that are feasible. If done effectively, that might be enough to stave off disaster. If not, then we can give up the ghost, because there are no alternatives in this world, at least none that I've seen suggested.

  Noam Chomsky

  Giving Up, Moving, Effort

  Fuente: www.counterpunch.org

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