Posted on 03/02/2009 6:58:51 AM PST by TornadoAlley3
Designated High-Speed Rail Corridors Map
As of January 2002, the FRA has designated ten high-speed corridors under section 1010 of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Act of 1991 (ISTEA) and Section 1103(c) of the Transportation Efficiency Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21). Designation allows a corridor to receive specially targeted funding for highway-rail grade crossing safety improvements, and recognizes the corridor as a potential center of HSR activity. These designated corridors are shown on the map at the beginning of this document and are listed below, generally from Southwest to Northeast.
DESIGNATED HIGH-SPEED RAIL CORRIDORS:
California Corridor
Pacific Northwest Corridor
South Central Corridor
Gulf Coast Corridor
Chicago Hub Network
Florida Corridor
Southeast Corridor
Keystone Corridor
Empire Corridor
Northern New England Corridor
NOT A "DESIGNATED HIGH-SPEED RAIL CORRIDOR":
Northeast Corridor (Please Note : The Northeast Corridor main line is not a "designated high-speed rail corridor" for purposes of 23 U.S.C. Section 104(d)(2) ("Railway-highway crossing hazard elimination in high-speed rail corridors") nor for programs that depend upon that Section, such as the high-speed rail corridor development program in Section 501(d) of Public Law 110-432, the Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act of 2008 (49 U.S.C. 26106).)
Passenger Rail / High-Speed Ground Transportation / High-Speed Rail
Last Updated: Feb. 23, 2009
NO can get their evacuees out faster. I do not know enough about this, is it cost effective, why not private sector doing it?
Obama backs high speed rail
Oh fantastico. We can get more mexicans from San Antonio to Tulsa! Critically important!
I’m all for smaller government, but if congress and this admin are going to push ahead with massive stimulus packages I’d rather it be spent on things like this than paying people to not work.
Interesting that they don’t have the DFW, San Antonio, Houston triangle as has been proposed before. Airline lobbying?
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