A state with no rail network is always going to have a hard time competing on infrastructure, but it is hard to argue that a Pacific Island chain needs a rail network.
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In doing that, they also dug whole new tunnels under the city and actually transformed commuter rail network into a true regional rail network, which no city in the US has done.
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Highways are well maintained, and the rail network is robust.
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China's rail network is mainly run by China Railway Corp.
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About 40 percent of Germany's rail network is not electrified.
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On Monday, Siemens signed a contract to upgrade Iran's rail network.
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The accident is the latest to beset India's extensive rail network.
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The country's rail network is the fourth-largest in the world.
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From Fortezza the speed picks up thanks to the Italian rail network.
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It is also a hub for the country's high-speed rail network.
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London's underground and surrounding rail network were also disrupted by the heavy rain.
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Neighboring India, with a vastly larger rail network, reported 73 accidents in 2018.
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On the mainline rail network, derailments are down 2202 percent compared to 2628.
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And the Metro rail network is one of the busiest in the country.
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China's expanding high-speed rail network now covers about 12,500 miles of track.
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China famously has facilitated much of the development of its ultrafast rail network.
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Egypt's state-owned, 6,700km rail network, the oldest in Africa, has seen better days.
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It was the latest in a series of deadly accidents on Italy's rail network.
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Now, many are struggling to get space on the rail network by the Nov.
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Train crashes are frequent in India, which has the world's fourth biggest rail network.
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Tragically, this rail network has been allowed to deteriorate to the point of disrepair.
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Accidents frequently occur along India's sprawling rail network, the third largest in the world.
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The rapid sinking could affect buildings and public works projects, including the city's rail network.
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The state's extensive rail network carried more than 300 million tons of freight in 2014.
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The fate of Lebanon's rail network tracks the rise and fall of the country's fortunes.
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While China boasts the world's largest high-speed rail network, there are none in India.
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Buhari campaigned on pledges to fight corruption and overhaul Nigeria's creaking road and rail network.
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The system's ridership declined 150 percent last year, despite major investments in the rail network.
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But more Britons than ever are using the rail network, crow the champions of privatization.
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There have also been reports the deal includes large investments in expanding Austria's rail network.
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It was the latest in a series of accidents on the country's dilapidated rail network.
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Plans for Russia to upgrade Cuba's rail network are also advancing, Borisov was cited as saying.
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Britain's rail network had been publicly owned, and Branson wanted to be part of its privatization.
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It has no rail network to speak of, and it is not a major cargo hub.
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The Etihad Rail network will also form a vital part of the Gulf-wide railway network.
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Egyptians have long complained that governments have failed to enforce safety on the antiquated rail network.
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Reduced revenues mean reduced money for investment in the rail network and reduced manufacturing job growth.
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Yet Wisbech, like many towns cut off from the rail network, is now expecting great things.
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Between 1995 and 2015 privatizations have produced a fragmented rail network controlled by a dozen companies.
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An estimated 27 million people use the Indian rail network, which crisscrosses 70,000 miles of track.
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Staff have been prepped and ready to work on the largest rail network in the world.
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Once complete, the rail network will connect Tanzania with Burundi, Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Buhari, 76, campaigned on pledges to fight corruption and overhaul Nigeria's creaking road and rail network.
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"UPS is comfortable with the current structure of the North American rail network," spokesman Dan McMakin said.
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But current rules generally hinder the industry from leveraging the technologies throughout the 140,000-mile rail network.
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For several hours, the city's underground rail network, the MTR, avoided the station closest to the disturbance.
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Indian laborers contributed to the building of the country's rail network, with many dying due to malaria.
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Private and business customers including the country's rail network provider and political parties were affected, Scheucher added.
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In Japan, where Kobe Steel is based, attention focused on the country's renowned high-speed rail network.
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Much of the rail network remained gridlocked on Monday as days of traffic chaos continued across France.
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Much of the rail network remained gridlocked on Monday as days of traffic chaos continued across France.
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Continued investments are critical not only for maintaining a safe and efficient rail network, but for job creation.
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After several planning phases, it was finally abandoned in 1987, supplanted by a more straightforward automated rail network.
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With India's rail network temporarily shut, many had no choice but to try walking hundreds of miles home.
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Transnet operates nearly three quarters of the African rail network, the bulk of which is in South Africa.
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The central city of 11 million people is also a hub for the country's high-speed rail network.
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The Treasury has granted Prasa 41.5 billion rand over the next three years to modernise the rail network.
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Today, that rail network, known as the PATH, is as critical as ever to the region's transportation network.
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But even if the war ends it will take years before work on a new rail network can begin.
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By 1869, however, the city's burgeoning rail network took the tunnel over, and it was closed to the public.
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As the national rail network for the U.S., Amtrak offers train routes spanning 159 states and over 21,000 miles.
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Their role irks some British taxpayers, who subsidise the rail network to the tune of £20163bn ($5.6bn) a year.
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Ohio's robust rail network carried some 289 million tons of freight in 2017, among the busiest in the nation.
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India has the world's fourth biggest rail network, but it is grappling with chronic under-investment and over-crowding.
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Economic growth in Africa's most populous nation has been hampered for decades by the dilapidated road and rail network.
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On Friday, morning train commuters faced disruption after the extreme heat wreaked havoc on the rail network and airports.
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The rail network resumed operations on Monday although maintenance work was underway at some stations that had been vandalised.
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Given past precedent and the potential for widespread disruption in the rail network, regulators should abstain from such efforts.
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The Dallas-area boasts the largest passenger rail network in North America, operated by Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART).
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Control Attribute Stronger: BII's rail network development plan needs approval from the central government's National Development and Reform Commission.
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The new Towson report shows that America's nearly 140,000-mile freight rail network is critical to the American economy.
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It was the kind of hiccup that can set off a cascade of delays across the vast rail network.
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It once led the pack in courting Chinese investment — for new ports, a rail network, and even artificial islands.
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A very similar story can be seen in the country's high-speed-rail network, though with a telling interlude.
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India's Ministry of Railways, which manages the world's fourth-largest rail network, has grappled with a spate of accidents.
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The rail network resumed operations on Monday although maintenance work was underway at some stations that had been vandalized.
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The unsexy but pretty-danged-compelling answer, says this Columbia University historian and blogger, should be Chicago's rail network.
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PARIS — Stéphane Vardon has worked as a conductor on France's high-speed and suburban rail network for 220 years.
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Biden is still a believer in a coast-to-coast, high-speed rail network, despite seeing Obama's ambitious "vision" for a nationwide, high-speed rail network sputter: Florida and Wisconsin rejected federal high-speed rail grants; and California's high-speed rail program has become a political punching bag and a money pit.
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Transport for London runs the city's roads, trams, cycling facilities, buses, taxis, river services, and most of its rail network.
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BNSF has an exemption from the FAA to operate drones out of the line of sight along its rail network.
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But its problems mostly stem from Britain's rail network, the oldest in the world, which is increasingly crowded and unreliable.
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Finally, the rail network also diversifies and strengthens China's transportation options, usefully by-passing chokepoints such as the Malacca Strait.
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The ML-1 is the spine of the country's dilapidated rail network, as well as the biggest source of revenue.
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Vancouver boosted transit ridership via SkyTrain, the world's longest automated rail network, which hauls more than 495,000 passengers per day.
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Still, the state's bridges are in disrepair, and its freight rail network is in the bottom five for tonnage carried.
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Zhu was speaking as Vanke and Shenzhen Metro signed a memorandum of understanding to deepen cooperation on a rail network development.
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Under Modi, India has been talking up the appeal of bullet trains as the main rail network, slow and saturated, struggles.
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India's railway system is the world's fourth biggest rail network, but it is grappling with chronic under-investment and over-crowding.
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Trains are great, and Los Angeles' light rail network—84 miles spreading across the Southland—is the largest in the country.
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It said decisions to proceed with the HS2 high-speed rail network and Heathrow airport expansion would significantly improve its outlook.
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Singapore has expanded its rail network length by 30 percent and has added new routes and capacity in its bus network.
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Likewise, our ports and freight-rail network are excellent, but in most of the country there's no direct connection between them.
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The trenches for a light-rail network have been dug, though it is likely to be inadequate the moment it opens.
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The dilapidated state of the rail network and high prices became so dire that the government had to take drastic action.
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Not coincidentally, that was the year the national rail network was privatized by the Conservative government of Prime Minister John Major.
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On the environmental side, the deal includes measures such as increasing a tax on flights slightly and expanding the rail network.
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That's about what the United States spent invading Iraq, and a high-speed rail network would be more useful than that.
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He also built locomotives and persuaded the Belgian government to invest in a comprehensive rail network, an example quickly followed by Germany.
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The rail network had barely expanded since the days of the British Raj, despite having to handle some 2200bn passengers a year.
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ATC has been in place throughout the Northeast corridor -- the most heavily traveled rail network in the country -- for nearly 40 years.
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LA once had the largest rail network on the planet until the old streetcar system was dismantled in the 1950s and 1960s.
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The announcement is a blow to China, which has built the world's largest high-speed rail network in less than a decade.
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Meanwhile, the country is rapidly rolling out urban metro systems and a vast high-speed rail network to solve its transport challenge.
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The former banker had overhauled the state rail company, expanding and improving the Dutch colonial-era rail network, including its time keeping.
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Optimising your rail network and watching passengers shuttle about your city is an easygoing, meditative experience, providing a quiet sense of accomplishment.
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According to Chen, most women knows someone who has experienced some form of sexual abuse while traveling on the capital's rail network.
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China's high-speed rail network and its world-class network of new expressways also make it easy to do business, he added.
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New Jersey Transit, which operates the state's sprawling rail network, said recently that no funding was available so far for the plan.
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A new light rail network snakes across the city, though Addis is swathed in darkness for hours when the power goes out.
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China has the world's longest high-speed rail network and has set an aim to reach a length of 30,000 km by 2020.
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CSX, based in Jacksonville, Florida, is a $50 billion company that runs a 21,000 mile freight rail network along the U.S. east coast.
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A couple of German companies are reportedly interested in grabbing a share of a multibillion-dollar project to overhaul Turkey's depleted rail network.
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Some of Aurizon's rail network will take up to five weeks to repair, the company said, disrupting coal deliveries from mines to ports.
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The rail network has not kept pace with the long-term population shift to cities or the increase in freight traffic from ports.
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Heavy snow storms snarled the world's largest rail network this week, closing highways, freezing ports and cutting off critical supplies of thermal coal.
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But analysts say until the rail network fully connects those supply hubs with centers of demand, further congestion problems look likely to persist.
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Noticeably absent from that list is the US, which is still struggling to get its own high-speed rail network off the ground.
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The Virgin founder also said that building a hyperloop tube above or below ground is "cheaper" and "faster" than a traditional rail network.
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Iran is seeking to expand its rail network to 25,000 km (15,500 miles) from 10,000 km currently, with 7,500 km already under construction.
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Nigeria has been looking for partners to upgrade its ageing rail network but GE did not specify which concession it was referring to.
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The high-speed rail network connects Hong Kong to 44 cities in the mainland and that will rise to 58 destinations this week.
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Governments' strained budgets have now delayed that project indefinitely, and Omani officials say they may instead focus on building a domestic rail network.
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Nearby, a rail network mostly financed by a Chinese government bank is being built to speed Chinese goods along a new Silk Road.
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Kim Jong Un, however, travels in his own heavy, armored train which could pose a problem for Vietnam's outdated, colonial-era rail network.
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But the projects underway — a first light-rail line in Tel Aviv, an expanded light-rail network in Jerusalem — only scratch the surface.
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It was part of a mega-project that predated Chávez, a rail network intended to knit together Venezuela's ports, cities, and industrial centers.
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Tadesse said the high-speed electric rail network that Tanzania is building is expected to boost trade with landlocked neighbours in the region.
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Among the bonds it bought were those issued by Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane, the government-owned company that manages the Italian rail network.
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Two new light-rail lines opened last year, and in November, voters approved a sales tax increase to nearly double the city's rail network.
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About 90 percent of the rail network is in Malaysia, and Najib's government has agreed to pay for its share of the line itself.
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China Eastern and rivals, Air China Ltd and China Southern Airlines , also face competition at home from a fast-growing high-speed rail network.
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Buhari, 76, took office in 2015 and sought a second term with pledges to fight corruption and overhaul Nigeria's creaking road and rail network.
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The study estimates that the proposal could cost anywhere between $1.4 trillion and more than $5 trillion to build a high-speed rail network.
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Economic growth in Nigeria has been hampered for decades by its dilapidated rail network, built mainly by British colonial rulers before independence in 1960.
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The U.S. freight rail network is a $60 billion industry covering 1403,000 rail miles and supporting 221,000 jobs, according to the Federal Railroad Administration.
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As mayor, Hickenlooper helped persuade dozens of suburban cities, sometimes led by Republicans, to back a tax hike to fund a light-rail network.
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Google and the government launched a program to bring Wi-Fi coverage to India's rail network in January, and there may be parallels here.
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China's high-speed rail network is the world's largest, with over 12,400 miles of track already built, funded with $538 billion in government money.
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It has one of Europe's best airports, ranked just behind Frankfurt and Vienna, and an excellent rail network connecting major European capitals, including London.
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The melee followed months of demonstrations in the streets by workers who have blocked oil refineries, nuclear plants, factories and the country's rail network.
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Dallas has expanded its light rail network to 90 miles (150 km), the most in the country, despite Texas' car-centric culture, she added.
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To the Hong Kong government, the West Kowloon station is important economically, accelerating access to mainland China and its growing high-speed rail network.
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The proposal by the president, Moon Jae-in, included joint economic zones along the North-South border, a linked rail network and other steps.
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Others clashed with police, started fires and vandalised property, resulting in the first closure of the city's mass-transit rail network in 40 years.
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Beginning in the 1990s, New Jersey Transit undertook major improvements to its rail network to make it easier for commuters to get into Manhattan.
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But it recently lost its license for the Northern Rail network in northern England and sources said Brexit uncertainty had scared off potential investors.
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While Morocco already has an extensive rail network that serves 40 million passengers, the country has been developing high-speed rail for a decade.
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The civil aviation authority said 30 percent of flights at airports nationwide had been canceled but there was no disruption on the rail network.
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This portion of the country is so well-suited to passenger rail that its rail network was built out in the mid-19th century.
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The transit authority of the eastern city of Suzhou said China's state planner has approved a $22 billion expansion of its urban rail network.
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Multiple landslides and flooding knocked out the rail network when Cyclone Debbie ripped through the state of Queensland, a major coking coal region, last week.
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Protests continued throughout Wednesday, with the country's high-speed rail network suffering delays, while motorways throughout Catalonia and many of Barcelona's main thoroughfares remain closed.
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Over the past decade, China has ploughed trillions of dollars into expanding its high-speed passenger rail network, but spending growth is starting to slow.
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Extending a pan-African high-speed rail network to Mozambique, for example, yields only three cents-worth of benefits per dollar spent, the CCC calculates.
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Ill-advised actions by the STB – for example, attempting to micromanage routing and railroad pricing decisions – could ripple throughout the 140,000 mile U.S. rail network.
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There is a clear role for a central authority with strong organising power to develop a power-transmission system or a high-speed rail network.
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"We need to get the capability on board to deliver," said Shane Ellison, the head of Auckland Transport, which is handling the underground rail network project.
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China has the world's fastest and largest high-speed rail network — more than 19,000 miles, the vast majority of which was built in the past decade.
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Transport Secretary Frank Chan called on protesters to stop targeting a rail network that provides transport to five million people a day, public broadcaster RTHK reported.
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Georgia is home to two important deepwater ports at Savannah and Brunswick, the rail network is extensive, and roads and bridges — while congested — are well maintained.
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It already has the largest high-speed rail network in the world, with more than 15,500 miles of track, and aims to double it by 2030.
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Transnet operates nearly three-quarters of the African rail network, the bulk of which is in South Africa, but it has been looking to expand abroad.
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One of the trains running on Japan's high-speed rail network (the Shinkansen), which is run by the Japan Railways Group, seen in Tokyo in 2016.
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Once complete, the new electric rail network is expected to save Uganda an estimated $2 billion a year through lower freight costs and shorter shipment times.
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So the slump in coal deliveries had an immediate and significant impact on freight volumes across the rail network and a corresponding impact on diesel demand.
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He said he believed that Mr. Moorman's presence would help Amtrak attract the capital required for the Gateway program and other improvements to its rail network.
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The inclusion of rail into the renewable transport targets was criticised by the European Commission, as large parts of the European rail network are already electrified.
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Past rail service crises, such as that during the late 85033s, have demonstrated that congestion at one location can adversely affect the rail network at large.
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But China, where pigeon-racing remains popular, has been feverishly building a high-speed rail network, with trains that can travel nearly 200 miles an hour.
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It also wants to add an AirTrain to connect La Guardia to the subway and rail network and to replace the troubled AirTrain at Newark Liberty.
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The high-speed rail network has grown from less than 216,26 kilometres in 22018 to more than 25,000 kilometres by 2017 ("Annual statistical yearbook", NBS, 2018).
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As a problem of engineering, design, and aesthetics, commissioning art for a rail network with the second biggest ridership in the United States was a gamble.
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The inclusion of rail into the renewable transport targets was criticized by the European Commission, as large parts of the European rail network are already electrified.
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Naturally, commenters still used the opportunity to bemoan that they're stuck with the real BART system, rather than the hypothetically more extensive Taco Bell rail network.
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By 1910, Chicago — hog butcher for the world, headquarters of Montgomery Ward, the nerve center of the nation's rail network — had more than two million residents.
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In mid-August, 44 trade groups asked federal regulators to investigate "chronic service failures" at CSX which they said had rippled out across North America's rail network.
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The murky affair seems to have wiped out any credit the president earned for his victory against the unions of the SNCF rail network earlier this summer.
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According to a report in Der Spiegel, two German companies, Siemens and Deutsche Bahn, are hoping to take part in a €35bn overhaul of Turkey's rail network.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British police on Tuesday were investigating two attempts to disrupt the rail network that they said were linked to Britain's exit from the European Union.
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Economic growth in Africa's most populous nation has been hampered for decades by its dilapidated rail network, built mainly by British colonial rulers before independence in 1960.
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"All 75 New Generation Rollingstock trains are expected to be delivered and rolled-out on to the South East Queensland rail network by late-2018," he added.
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The RMT union said staff working on the "Tube", as the world's oldest underground rail network is known, would stage a 16-hour walkout from 6 p.m.
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He added that Voi has been working with German rail network operator Deutsche Bahn to let users drop the scooters off at designated areas by train stations.
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Here in South Dakota, we work with our railroad partners to encourage the economic development opportunities that stem from the interconnected, 140,85033-plus-mile freight rail network.
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The US rail network is far less robust than Europe's, both as a result of geography and decades of policy that's prioritized planes and cars over trains.
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The Indian rail network carries more than 23 million passengers daily, the equivalent to moving the entire population of Australia, and connects 8,000 stations across the subcontinent.
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They converted their commuter rail network into an all-day, seven-day-a-week service rather than lines that are only targeted at 9-to-5 commuters.
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The line will also allow passengers from Hong Kong to connect to 1.33 long-haul destinations on China's national high-speed rail network, including Beijing and Shanghai.
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The government defended the arrangement as necessary for the smooth operation of the $10.7 billion station, which linked Hong Kong to China's vast high-speed rail network.
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Not only is the city a center for China's high-speed rail network, it has flights going to more than 60 international destinations from Tianhe International Airport.
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Critics have called for it to be abandoned, on the grounds that northern England could use the sum to upgrade its creaking and overcrowded local rail network.
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Short line and regional freight railroads are an American success story connecting the rural and industrial heartland to the national rail network, creating jobs and sustaining communities.
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In 2015, Tanzania said it planned to spend $14.2 billion to construct a new standard gauge rail network over the next five years, mostly financed with loans.
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With major ports on Lake Michigan and the Ohio River and a robust rail network, Indiana is well equipped to get goods where they need to be.
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Its two major international airports are among the nation's busiest, and the state's freight rail network is in the top five in the nation for tons carried.
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But this may not be enough to halt a wave of strikes that have shut down most of the rail network, many schools and the Paris Métro.
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The authorities were investigating the cause of the collision, the latest in a series of train accidents in South Africa, which has the continent's largest rail network.
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Tokyo (CNN)A single, small slug has been blamed for a massive power failure that brought part of Japan's high-speed rail network to a standstill last month.
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Chicago's airport loop will consist of consist of an 18-mile rail network for autonomous, 16-passenger cars that can reach peak speeds of 150 miles per hour.
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IN 279 the government of India, then directed by Britain's East India Company, began construction of a vast rail network, continued by the British Raj, established in 21880.
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But Vintage Trains aims to be the first to operate a full scheduled service on the mainline rail network, operating out of its base in the West Midlands.
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The No. 3 U.S. railroad said Nate, the fourth major storm to hit the United States in less than two months, caused "minimal impact" to its rail network.
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Back in January, reports suggested that South Korea was working on a Hyperloop-like high-speed rail network for the country, spearheaded by the Korea Railroad Research Institute.
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It's located some 45 minutes by car from the Guangzhou, the third largest city in China, which recently connected its massive rail network to Knowledge City's new trains.
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ROME, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Iraq plans to launch a reconstruction agency to focus on projects such as a deep water port and a rail network, Iraq's president said.
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But goes on to say he is confident Loco2 has superior routing options vs its main competitors — thanks to greater market reach (such as covering Spain's rail network).
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As part of his strategy to boost business and generate jobs, Modi has accelerated public spending on road construction, laying new power lines and upgrading the rail network.
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The company's LUNA system combines machine-learning algorithms, a rail network and autonomous cameras that drive around the greenhouse, capturing time-lapse images of plants as they grow.
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Geneva will see prices swell by 4% for similar reasons to Sydney: low interest rates and investment in transportation — in Geneva's case, the Leman Express commuter rail network.
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France is an excellent case study in the truism that a national rail network is the spirit of the country in miniature, a little state within the state.
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An independent review into how Britain's privatised rail network should be run in future headed by former British Airways CEO Keith Williams is due in the coming weeks.
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One area that has already undergone a radical transformation is the way Londoners pay to travel on buses and on the city's underground and over-ground rail network.
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An upgraded rail network has helped turn the city into a logistics hub, linking China's output with overland shipments to Europe as part of the Belt and Road initiative.
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Indeed, the giant, gleaming glass terminal in Nairobi looks identical to many in China, a country that has built an extensive high-speed rail network over the past decade.
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Govia has also been affected by conductors on the Southern rail network, who in April held strikes over a plan to bring in trains with doors operated by drivers.
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Its construction unit - its single biggest business by revenue - reported a 4.9% rise in revenue supported in France by strong activity of the Grand Paris region rail network project.
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"This was a serious and deliberate attempt by someone to cause significant sabotage and disruption to Britain's rail network," Sean O'Callaghan from British Transport Police said in a statement.
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Nomura will advise Ferrovie on how to separate the two businesses from the rest of the group, which also owns the country's rail network, one of the sources said.
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Sixty percent of the trains on China's high-speed rail network — already the world's largest at a combined length of 19,000 kilometers — run faster than 350 kilometers per hour.
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Voters in Los Angeles are being asked to approve Measure M, which would raise money through a half-cent sales tax increase to nearly double the city's rail network.
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The municipality is committed to provide CNY0003 billion a year in capital grants from 2016-2045 to cover BII's funding needs for its rail network expansion plan and subsidies.
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In recent years, mainland Chinese police officers have been allowed to operate in a section of a new train station linking Hong Kong to China's high-speed-rail network.
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Earlier this year, Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Rail, the federal government-owned entity building a UAE rail network, said it cut 30 percent of its staff in a restructuring.
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The Institution of Mechanical Engineers says that 42 percent of Britain's rail network is currently electrified, which means that the country lags behind electrification rates in other European nations.
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Rolls-Royce also said it has signed a test deal with Ireland's Iarnrod Eireann, which could see up to 234 of its powerpacks fitted across the Irish rail network.
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Economists say the country should take advantage of record low interest rates to invest in infrastructure such as its aging rail network, in education and in research and development.
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Economists say the country should take advantage of record low interest rates to invest in infrastructure such as its aging rail network, in education and in research and development.
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That means even bolder investments in the city's bus and light rail network, upgrading Sounder Commuter Rail to something resembling a viable rail link to Tacoma, and rezoning for growth.
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She cited that the Chinese government displaced 9,000 villagers to build the FAST telescope, and it has had safety issues related to the construction of its high-speed rail network.
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It would also lead to infrastructure investments in Mongolia, including the development of a railway that could link into the Chinese rail network and deliver coal to destinations throughout China.
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So even with a high-speed rail network across the US, there will still be a market for air travel, and no one is proposing to get rid of airlines.
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America's private freight rail network, buoyed by world-class infrastructure made possible by sizeable investments, as well as the deregulatory structure enacted nearly 40 years ago, intimately understands both issues.
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This area, Chojidong, part of Seoul's larger metro area, is part of a redevelopment project close to a new high-speed train station connecting it to the national rail network.
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The Chinese government plans to expand the country's high-speed rail network to 30,000 kilometers (18,600 miles) by 2020, part of public infrastructure spending aimed at shoring up economic growth.
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In June, Reuters reported that a planned $15 billion safety overhaul of India's rail network was facing delays as the state steel company could not meet demand for new rails.
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Union Pacific, which connects 23 states in western United States, has struggled with service problems and congestion on its rail network, leading it to issue a profitability warning for 2019.
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The rail network doesn't have capacity to carry the new crop, which started to hit the market in October, and could create a grains stockpile in Jilin, said the official document.
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The efforts include a five-year plan for integrated development until 2020 that envisages a 1,000-km (621-mile) rail network, among other projects, as well as unified regional pollution standards.
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Omaha, Nebraska-based Union Pacific operates a 25.4,000-route-mile rail network that includes the Los Angeles/Long Beach complex, a port responsible for most of the U.S.-China cargo flow.
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Often called "the lifeline of a nation," India's extensive rail network runs 12,000 trains a day and the full-length track could circle the globe over one and a half times.
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Kirby is chief executive of HS2 Ltd, the company in charge of planning and delivering a new high-speed rail network linking London to cities in the Midlands and the north.
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Network Rail, the owner and infrastructure manager of most of the rail network in Britain, said the sale consisted of about 5,200 properties, the majority of which are converted railway arches.
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Omaha, Nebraska-based Union Pacific operates a 22020,1.933-route-mile rail network that includes the Los Angeles/Long Beach complex, a port responsible for most of the U.S.-China cargo flow.
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China has spent billions at home building the world's longest high-speed rail network, but government investment is starting to plateau and Beijing is encouraging its firms to chase contracts abroad.
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It is a development both practical — a key component of a growing Metro Rail network — and potentially transformational, a centerpiece of the more transit-friendly city Los Angeles aspires to become.
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The FRA needs to withdraw this rule to show that it is in tune with the advances in technology that could make our country's safe and efficient rail network even better.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - The German government wants to inject some 50 billion euros ($13 billion) into upgrading the national rail network over the next decade, mass-selling Bild newspaper reported on Sunday.
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Measure M would double the size of the region's rail network and increase funding for busses, bike lanes, and other projects to reduce traffic by getting people out of their cars.
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Transport Minister Elizabeth Borne has promised a gradual opening of the rail network to competition from 2020 and has offered assurances that existing rail workers would have to make few sacrifices.
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"Unfortunately, many Chicagoans live and work in neighborhoods that lack access to Chicago's hub-and-spoke rail network," said Kyle Whitehead, a spokesman for the Active Transportation Alliance, an advocacy group.
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Based in Omaha, the company operates the largest rail network on the continent, a conduit that provides us with cereal, lumber, car parts and pretty much everything that touches our lives.
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They argue that the new railroad is necessary to ease congestion on the core of Britain's rail network, allowing for more local services on lines currently shared with long-distance expresses.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The world's oldest underground rail network takes a big step forward this weekend when the "tube" starts all-night Friday and Saturday services after years of obstruction and delay.
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China's rail network had grown to 70,000 kilometres (78,914 miles) in 226 up from 22018,270 kilometres in 26 and 22,22050 kilometres in 163, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).
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In Riyadh, a bustling but dusty desert city, new skyscrapers climb upward, while beneath the feet of the capital's more than 4 million residents, a new multibillion rail network burrows downwards.
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The 26 kilometer (16 mile) railway links Hong Kong up to China's high-speed rail network, currently the world's largest, allowing passengers to travel from the city to Shanghai and Beijing.
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Newark is a transportation hub in its own right, with an extensive rail network into Manhattan (an 18-minute train ride away), as well as up and down the Northeast Corridor.
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The rail project has been promoted by the junta as an ambitious infrastructure project that will revamp Thailand's aging rail network and boost regional trade but it has been mired in delays.
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Transnet, which operates nearly three-quarters of Africa's rail network, the bulk of which is in South Africa, is looking into allegations of corruption in the procurement of diesel and electric locomotives.
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Britain's privately-operated rail network attracts frequent criticism and in 2009 the government stripped National Express of the London to Edinburgh East Coast service, keeping it in state hands for five years.
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Drivers on the Southern Rail network will begin a 24-hour stoppage at midnight following two days of strikes earlier in the week which caused Britain's worst rail disruption for two decades.
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People can now pay for journeys on the city's tube, bus and overground rail network using contactless cards or their smartphone, although contactless payment is not available on board the minibus pilots.
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Related: California Just Broke Ground on a 1980s-Era High-Speed Rail Network Americans might have understandably reacted with envy at the opening of the Gotthard Base Tunnel in Switzerland on Wednesday.
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But for every disruptive technology like ride sharing or autonomous cars, there is a reliable freight railroad incorporating new technologies that ensure the efficiency and safety of the nation's essential rail network.
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Within hours of her edict being issued, protesters (mostly masked) vented their anger on the territory's rail network, which they accuse of aiding police by shutting down stations to hinder demonstrators' movements.
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Some of the bonds were issued by the government-owned company that manages the Italian rail network, which then used the money to order trains for regional services, making work for Pistoia.
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"I guess we are believers," said Schwarzman whose firm was part of a joint venture that agreed to buy up the commercial property portfolio of Britain's rail network owner for $1.9 billion.
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About 90 percent of the rail network was set to be in Malaysia, including a terminal in Bandar Malaysia, a big property development owned by scandal-hit state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB).
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China wants to be the main builder for an overland rail network from Singapore in the southern tip of Southeast Asia northwards through Indochina and China, then westwards through central Asia and Europe.
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When T.E. Lawrence's band of saboteurs blew up parts of the Turks' Middle East rail network in the first world war, Lebanon's dynamic railway factory produced the spares needed to mend the damage.
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The Korea Rail Network Authority, a government-owned enterprise, estimates the upgrade and repair of North Korea's dilapidated roads and railways could cost around $38.2 billion, the Chosun Ilbo newspaper reported on Monday.
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BERLIN, March 24 (Reuters) - The German government wants to inject some 50 billion euros ($13 billion) into upgrading the national rail network over the next decade, mass-selling Bild newspaper reported on Sunday.
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Its high-speed rail network will reach a length of 30,000 km (18,640 miles) by 2020, the state planning agency said in its "five-year plan" for the sector published earlier this year.
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Trudeau is also under pressure from western industries to quickly end a strike by workers at Canadian National Railway , the country's largest rail network, which is hitting exports such as grain and oil.
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Transportation analyst Alon Levy estimates that for about €60 billion, Germany could build a comprehensive high-speed rail network that would better connect all its major cities and make domestic air travel obsolete.
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Some respondents in the PMI survey said contracts from the recently announced High Speed 2 rail network and other major transport projects could boost infrastructure work at their businesses in the year ahead.
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Some respondents in the PMI survey said contracts from the recently announced High Speed 2 rail network and other major transport projects could boost infrastructure work at their businesses in the year ahead.
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Industrial action is "inevitable" on the Northern rail network, which covers a swathe of northern England including commuter services in Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne and Hull, a union boss warned. bit.
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"The Conservatives will improve punctuality by integrating parts of the rail network, make ticketing and pricing more transparent and will invest 500 million pounds in reopening branch lines closed under Labour," he said.
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Transnet, which operates nearly three-quarters of the African rail network, the bulk of which is in South Africa, has been investigating allegations of corruption in the procurement of 1,064 diesel and electric locomotives.
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But the regulatory changes in the country may also make it harder for new airlines, as feeder routes are often less profitable and face stiff competition from China's fast expanding high-speed rail network.
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Although it wasn't one of Mr. Trump's announced priorities, a high-speed, federally funded rail network, for example, could employ tens of thousands of people with high school educations during the yearslong building phase.
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The same, it would seem, may be said of a related recommendation to create a subway development corporation, an entity that would be charged exclusively with massaging the underground rail network into reasonable shape.
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Mid-battle saves are a lifesaver when you're navigating the British rail network, and more portable RPGs would be wise to learn from Fates' option of preserving your progress at just about any point.
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The administration had first said that it planned to cancel the money, and would try to claw back $2.5 billion it had already spent on the high-speed rail network, in February, after Gov.
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LONDON, March 23 (Reuters) - Britain said it was taking emergency measures to help its rail network survive a 70% drop in passenger numbers as coronavirus forces people to work from home and not travel.
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The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has approved a 95 billion yuan ($14 billion) plan by the eastern city of Suzhou to expand its urban rail network, Suzhou Rail Transit said on Tuesday.
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The terrain they have chosen, the country's heavily used rail network, has the potential to either make the president buckle by crippling France's economy or infuriate its citizens and turn them against the unions.
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But it could face competition for the rail network, including from U.S. railroad holding company Watco, one of the individuals said, after Greece relaunched the tender in an effort to drum up more interest.
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The recent decision by California's governor to scale back the state's high-speed rail network has prompted deeper questions about the country's ability to think big and work together on complex public works projects.
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According to a recent study, New York is the only US city with a significant rail network where ridership has increased since 2800 — in several other US cities included in the survey, ridership fell.
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In 2008, California voters approved a ballot measure authorizing nearly $10 billion in bond money for the first phase of a roughly 800-mile high-speed rail network that was targeted for completion in 2020.
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The launch is the latest in France's broader expansion of its high-speed rail network and shores up the national rail operator's economics before the country begins allowing companies to provide competing service in 2021.
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And that is not good at the job as it suffers from the age-old problems of what happens if you allow politicians to interfere day-to-day in the running of a rail network.
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Phase one of the rail network, completed in 2015, extends 264 km from Shah and Habshan near Abu Dhabi to Ruwais to transport the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company's shipments of granulated sulfur for export.
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Infrastructure projects Nigeria's transport network is due for a boost with the launch of the Abuja Light Rail network, which President Muhammadu Buhari has declared "21.9% complete," covering 22017 stations over a 2373-mile route.
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The rail link provides direct access to China's massive 25,000-km national high-speed rail network and authorities on both sides have hailed it as a breakthrough that will bring economic benefits, including increased tourism.
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NUR-SULTAN (Reuters) - Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev on Tuesday ordered an investigation into former senior officials who initiated a struggling $1.5 billion Chinese-led project to build a light rail network in the capital.
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NUR-SULTAN (Reuters) - Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev on Tuesday ordered an investigation into former senior officials who initiated a struggling $1.5 billion Chinese-led project to build a light rail network in the capital.
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Surviving policies from 2017 include a plan to nationalise utilities, alongside Royal Mail and the rail network, and a range of new rights for workers, from a higher minimum wage to restored collective-bargaining rights.
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BHP reiterated on Tuesday that its own investigation had found the incident was due to procedural non-compliance by the driver, as well as issues in integrating the electronic braking system with the rail network.
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The ML-1 rail line is the spine of country's dilapidated rail network, which has in recent years been edging towards collapse as passenger numbers plunge, train lines close and the vital freight business nosedives.
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They blocked his proposals for an infrastructure bank, a national high-speed rail network and the GROW AMERICA Act (Generating Renewal, Opportunity, and Work with Accelerated Mobility, Efficiency and Rebuilding of Infrastructure and Communities throughout America).
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The derailment comes only a few months after India's deadliest rail accident since 2010 -- a tragedy that once again pulled to the fore the issue of how the country's vast rail network is funded and maintained.
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In April a Chinese shipping company, Cosco, took a 22016% stake in Greece's second-largest port, Piraeus, from which Chinese firms are building a high-speed rail network linking the city to Hungary and eventually Germany.
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Despite recent woes with breakdowns on Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) lines, the public transport network is still largely efficient, and the government continues to expand the rail network and provide bus contracting subsidies to enhance capacity.
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The UAE has put on hold plans to build its own national rail network after neighboring Gulf countries fell behind on their rail projects that were supposed to link the six states from Kuwait to Oman.
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Amtrak has installed technology known as positive train control on parts of its rail network in the Northeast Corridor after passenger trains traveling well above the speed limit derailed, leaving a trail of death and injuries.
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Protesters paralyzed part of the high-speed rail network, after blocking the tracks in Sants, Barcelona's main train station, and in Girona, a city along the main rail link between Catalonia and the border with France.
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Analysts pointed to the news that Carillion had been named as one of the firms to work on building a new high-speed rail network in Britain, along with Balfour Beatty whose shares gained 3.4 percent.
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The initiative includes the creation of a modern rail network for Africa, intended to "transform the way Africans travel and do business with one another," as Andrew Jacobs of The Times reported from Djibouti this week.
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CSX's service disruptions have created logistical headaches for companies ranging from chemical and agricultural to automotive and steel producers whose supply chains, plants and distribution channels rely on CSX's rail network across the eastern United States.
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The Trump administration said on Tuesday that it was exploring legal options to get back $2.5 billion in federal funds spent on the state's high-speed rail network, and also terminating a $929 million grant. Gov.
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Surveillance footage from the station that circulated on social media, showing the crash and graphic images of passengers engulfed in flames, fanned public outrage at the latest disaster on Egypt's dilapidated and accident-prone rail network.
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During his speech last week, the governor said the high-speed rail network as it was initially envisioned — as a link between Los Angeles and the Bay Area — was taking too long and costing too much.
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New York's rail network has also become part of the debate over congestion pricing, which would charge drivers a fee to enter Manhattan neighborhoods at peak traffic times to raise money primarily for fixing the subways.
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In 2016 cybercriminals breached the systems of San Francisco's light rail network — which avoided paying because its systems were backed up — and a Hollywood hospital — which was forced to pay $17,000 in bitcoin to retrieve its data.
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South Africa is no exception to this, as these words regularly appear on the signal boards of the state-owned service, but that could be about to change as major investments aim to modernize the rail network.
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The Express Rail Link will connect with China's high-speed rail network, which is the largest in the world, and slash the journey time between Hong Kong and the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou to 48 minutes.
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Diamond criticized the proposal for the expanded IDEA district as "premature," and noted big infrastructure projects, such as the extension of the light-rail network, would require commitments from the government that are not yet in place.
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Driving the news: The report — by American Action Forum — estimates the Green New Deal could cost households more than $2,500 per year for electricity-related changes, while building a high-speed rail network would reach the trillions.
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That is nearly as much as Spain, the country with the second-largest high-speed rail network, has in total; for China, though, it is down from an average of 3,600km annually over the past five years.
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The union says it should be the job of a conductor, a second onboard staff member, as a safety issue while the company says driver-only operated trains already run across the rail network without any problems.
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LONDON, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Drivers on the London underground rail network have called off a 24-hour strike they had been due to stage on Thursday after making progress in talks with management, their ASLEF union said.
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Britain's rail network had grown in the nineteenth century via competition and speculation, rather than central planning, so it contained a lot of redundancy and low-volume lines that were never profitable even when they first opened.
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This includes those providing parts and technology for trains, those that help maintain railroad rights-of-way, rail labor unions and public officials who understand the importance of the freight rail network to companies and communities nationwide.
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Uncertainty clouds the future of a 2016 deal to construct a high-speed rail network between Kuala Lumpur and Singapore after Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said this week that all foreign infrastructure programs will be reviewed.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Authorities in New Delhi began revoking licenses for thousands of older diesel vehicles on Tuesday and halted construction work on the underground rail network, as air pollution remained several times over the safety limit.
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Ridership on the PATH rail network, which links cities in northern New Jersey to Manhattan, also declined nearly 20 percent in the first three days of this week compared to last week, according to Port Authority officials.
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The coming weeks could will be critical for the UK's rail network, as a government decision on whether to proceed with the country's biggest rail project, HS2, is expected, and the way rail contracts work is revamped.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A train derailed in India on Wednesday injuring 61 people, police and rail officials said, the third significant accident in recent months that have raised concern about the safety of the ageing rail network.
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Raff compares Amazon to a mid-20th century Sears Roebuck, the catalog company that shipped a universe of consumer goods from the center of America's rail network in Chicago to anyone within reach of a mail truck.
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Britain's rail network had grown in the nineteenth century via competition and speculation, rather than central planning, so it contained a lot of redundancy and low-volume lines that were never profitable even when they first opened.
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Last but by no means least, there's the question of why the richest and most powerful empire the world has ever known can't build itself a first-rate, truly high-speed national rail network along Chinese lines.
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In addition, the government compensates around 80% of the costs incurred from KORAIL's public-service-obligations, which accounts for 6.2% of the revenue, and all cost incurred from railroad maintenance work consigned by the Korea Rail Network Authority.
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CAPE TOWN, June 28 (Reuters) - South Africa will shut down its entire rail network transporting coal from pits to customers for almost two weeks to undertake scheduled repairs, state-owned freight rail logistics firm Transnet said on Friday.
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ABU DHABI (Reuters) - Etihad Rail, the developer and operator of the United Arab Emirates' national rail network, said on Tuesday the government has agreed financing for phase two of the project which was put on hold in 2016.
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The letter signed by STB acting chairman Ann Begeman and vice chairman Deb Miller cites the regulator's "increasing concerns regarding service across the rail network," and asks for a service outlook for the near term and for 2018.
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Retrofitting every building in the country, building thousands of wind turbines with American-made steel, installing millions of solar panels, rebuilding our mass-transit systems, creating a nationwide high-speed rail network, the list goes on and on.
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The disruptions were noteworthy in a country with a vast rail network that prides itself on its efficiency, with 98.8 percent of trains departing on time in 2016 and 95.4 percent arriving on schedule, and prompted complaints online.
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Union Pacific, which connects 23 states in the western two-thirds of the United States, in April warned it was unlikely to achieve its profitability target in 2019 due to service problems and congestion on its rail network.
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Supporters of HS2 say it will slash journey times and add capacity to Britain's crowded rail network, allowing the country to catch up with European countries like France and Spain which already have extensive high-speed rail networks.
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LONDON, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Transport group Go-Ahead, one of the companies behind the strike-hit Southern rail network in Britain, reported a 17 percent rise in annual profits, boosted by strong demand for bus and train travel.
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The previously unreported figures will make uncomfortable reading for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the son of a train station tea seller who set out plans to overhaul the world's fourth largest rail network after he took power in 353.
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It said on Wednesday it hoped to continue to play a role in Britain's rail network in the future, and continues to be involved in running other UK rail franchises including the West Coast line between London and Manchester.
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ROME (Reuters) - Iraq plans to launch a reconstruction agency to focus on projects such as a deep water port and a rail network, Iraq's president said on Thursday, as the country seeks to put years of turmoil behind it.
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India has the world's fourth biggest rail network, but it is grappling with underinvestment and overcrowding, especially in the city of 20 million where rail accidents have killed more than 3,000 people in each of the last three years.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Thousands of small factories in China, making everything from steel to chemicals, are scrambling for access to the country's clogged rail network as Beijing curbs the use of diesel trucks in an effort to tackle air pollution.
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To date that has focused strongly on India, where Google has developed data-friendly "lite" versions of popular apps like YouTube, and initiatives like public Wi-Fi for India's rail network that's used by more than eight million people.
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Scrapping the 350km rail network, which is expected to slash travel time between the two cities to 90 minutes from a four to five-hour car journey, could reintroduce tensions into Malaysia's interactions with its wealthy, next-door neighbor.
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NETWORK OPERATION Britains rail network had grown in the nineteenth century via competition and speculation, rather than central planning, so it contained a lot of redundancy and low-volume lines that were never profitable even when they first opened.
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Chin says the Malay elite welcomes Chinese investment in purely commercial deals such as property purchases, but are more wary about agreements such as a 55 billion ringgit ($13.11 billion) deal for the Chinese to develop a rail network.
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Union Pacific is working with scientists at the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to figure out which spots along its 32,100-mile (51,660 km) rail network are most vulnerable to catastrophic water flows from storms, Fritz said.
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Now, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is looking to capitalize on an easing in international tensions with his isolated regime to advance plans for a high-speed rail network to rival those in Europe and neighboring South Korea.
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Texas also boasts the nation's second-best Infrastructure, with two major international airports, one of the world's most important seaports, an extensive rail network and roads and bridges that are in better shape than those in the rest of the country.
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Without timely barge deliveries, CHS will lean on its rail network that brings imported supplies from Galveston, Texas, to any of the 29 rail hubs it owns in places like Sioux Falls, South Dakota; Marshall, Minnesota; and Minot, North Dakota.
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The world's fourth-largest rail network, saturated and slow after years of underinvestment, is one year into a five-year, $240-billion investment plan that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is betting on to overhaul the system and boost economic growth.
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Rail operator MTR Corp said urged people to seek other forms of transport, while public broadcaster RTHK reported that Transport Secretary Frank Chan had called on protesters to stop targetting a rail network that provided transport to five million people daily.
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Polls show that two thirds of voters back an overhaul of the railways, which many users say have suffered from debt-funded investment in the much-admired high-speed TGV network at the expense of a far bigger secondary rail network.
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SNCF debt tops 46 billion euros, much of it blamed on heavy investment in France's much-admired TGV high-speed train network at the expense of a far bigger secondary rail network which the company admits neglecting over recent years.
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Lohani said the world's fourth-biggest rail network was trying to make it easier for all levels of employees to approach top officials via WhatsApp or other media so that grievances can be addressed immediately and human error can be minimized.
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A spokesman for BHP, which has interests in 11 coal mines in Queensland's Bowen Basin, with most located on the Goonyella line, said the miner was planning to "expedite product from our mines while the rail network is being repaired".
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So it is troubling to see the Surface Transportation Board (STB) move forward on reregulatory efforts through several proposed rules, including so called "reciprocal switching" and commodity reregulation, that would threaten the health and success of the freight rail network.
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What's driving the drop: "Trains receded into the background after the oil price fell and pipelines started up, both of which took pressure off the rail network," said Kevin Book, managing director of ClearView Energy Partners, an independent research firm.
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Deutsche Bahn has a deficit of 1.2 billion euros a year in costs for maintaining the rail network and Bild said the finance ministry wants to boost maintenance funds to 4.6 billion euros starting next year from 3.5 billion presently.
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SAIL failed to meet its target to supply rails for Indian Railways for the third straight year in 2017/18, underscoring the problems of modernizing the country's rail network which came under scrutiny after a spate of accidents last year.
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"Harrison's legendary ability to redesign a rail network with his Precision Scheduled Railroading model created the two most efficient operations in North America and we believe his legacy will continue at CSX," J.P. Morgan analyst Brian Ossenbeck wrote on Sunday.
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The Omaha, Nebraska-based company's rail network covers 32,000 route miles (51,000 km) in the Western two-thirds of the country and includes the Los Angeles/Long Beach port complex, which handles the most China ocean cargo in the United States.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Air France said it expected to operate around 75 percent of its flights on Tuesday, the first day of a strike that will coincide with a larger stoppage on the rail network, paralyzing much of France's transport network.
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The 44 trade groups, representing chemical and agricultural companies, steel and auto makers, and beer producers and importers, among other companies, told U.S. lawmakers on House and Senate Transportation committees "chronic service failures" could degrade the nation's broader rail network.
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The court case comes ahead of the publication of a review into how Britain's privatised rail network should be run in future, following the failure of several high-profile rail contracts, and amid consumer complaints over strikes and poor service.
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The court case comes ahead of the publication of a review into how Britain's privatised rail network should be run in future, following the failure of several high-profile rail contracts, and amid consumer complaints over strikes and poor service.
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Results were helped by iron ore and pellet production that reached a record for an April-to-June period, using a vast rail network to get around the effects of a trucker strike that rattled the country's economy in May.
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Local authorities are touting it as a breakthrough that will slash travel times by at least half, provide direct access to China's massive 25,000-kilometer (113,500-mile) national high speed rail network and spur economic benefits such as increased tourism.
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Gavin Newsom all but canceled the state's ambitious plans for a statewide high-speed rail network, one that would link San Diego and Los Angeles to San Francisco, San Jose, and Sacramento via the major cities in the state's Central Valley.
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The 17-billion-ruble ($285-million) contract is for a railway to connect the Russian rail network with what some Russians have dubbed "Putin's bridge", a 19-km (12-mile) road-and-rail bridge across the Kerch Strait which separates Russia from Crimea.
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DUBAI, July 4 (Reuters) - Etihad Rail, the developer and operator of the United Arab Emirates' national rail network, is expected to approach banks for about $2 billion to help finance the expansion of the network, banking sources familiar with the matter said.
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A washed out bridge downstream from the disaster carried a branch of the rail network run by MRS Logistica SA, Infrastructure Minister Tarcisio Gomes de Freitas said on Twitter, adding that the main line of the Ferrovia do Aço was not damaged.
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About 90 percent of the rail network is set to be in Malaysia, including a terminal in Bandar Malaysia, a property development owned by state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), which is currently subject to a money-laundering investigation in Malaysia and elsewhere.
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The completion of the rail line will bring a major change to the city, connecting landlocked Laos to China's extensive rail network, which will bring tourism and property investment, said Tony Saiyalath, managing director at RentsBuy, a property company based in Vientiane.
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And in Britain a plethora of bodies are involved — including in this case the train franchise operator, Northern Rail; Network Rail, which is responsible for the track; the airport; and Rail North, which brings together local transport authorities across the north of England.
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In fact, in comments filed with the Surface Transportation Board opposing forced access, the world's largest shipper, UPS, said the rule would decrease the efficiency of the rail network to the extent that it could be forced to move containers back onto highways.
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They may have made a couple of clumsy changes to make this look like it is connected to the interstate rail network, but as far as I can tell Texas Central is fighting an uphill battle for this project to come to fruition.
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The rail network, used by companies like Hewlett Packard, the sports gear company Decathlon and the carmaker Volvo, handled 3,673 train trips between China and Europe in 2017, up from 1,0003 in 2016 and just 17 in 2011, according to China Railway, the national operator.
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On Mr Modi's watch, India has accelerated road-building, invested in the ageing rail network, launched an ambitious solar power plan, opened accounts for more than 200m previously unbanked Indians, and increased the foreign investment limits for sectors ranging from insurance to defence manufacturing.
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The rail network anticipated a 12 percent revenue slump from the same quarter a year ago due to a decrease in bulk commodities like grain and potash coupled with "devastating wildfires in northern Alberta and a strengthening Canadian dollar," it said in a release.
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The company, which connects 23 states in the western two-thirds of the United States by rail, warned in April that it was unlikely to achieve an operating ratio of 60 percent in 2019 due to service problems and congestion on its rail network.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - A plan to allow China to enforce its law at a Hong Kong train station cleared a final legal hurdle on Thursday to pave the way for the city to connect to the mainland's vast high-speed rail network in September.
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Growth in Nigeria - an OPEC member whose economy, the largest in Africa, is in recession for the first time in more than 20 years due to low oil prices - has been stunted for decades by a lack of investment in its road and rail network.
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A government source said Prime Minister Narendra Modi's office had intervened after GE raised its concerns and the railways had not made a written proposal for a change of plans from diesel to an all-electric fleet to power the world's fourth largest rail network.
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The Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link, which will connect Hong Kong to China's high speed rail network, and the Liantang-Heung Yuen Wai Boundary Control Point, a border crossing between Hong Kong and mainland China, are both due to open later this year.
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NEW DELHI, Aug 20 (Reuters) - India began investigating on Sunday a train crash in which 23 people were killed, the fourth major accident over the past year on the world's fourth biggest rail network which is grappling with chronic under-investment and over-crowding.
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According to the U.S. Surface Transportation Board's most recent figures, Ohio's extensive rail network carries some 280 million tons of freight per year, putting the state in the top 10 nationally and cementing the state's role as an essential cog in America's transportation system.
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WASHINGTON — A day after California filed a lawsuit challenging President Trump's emergency declaration on the border, the Transportation Department said it was exploring legal options to claw back $2.63 billion in federal funds it had already spent on the state's high-speed rail network.
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There are plans to provide funding for research into autonomous driving technology and support the establishment of battery cell production in Germany The coalition aims to electrify 70 percent of Germany's vast rail network by 2025 and double the number of rail passengers by 2030.
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The gains in resources stocks came after BHP issued guidance before market open; the miner cut its guidance for fiscal 2016 iron ore production by 10 million tonnes to 260 million tonnes, pointing to adverse weather and the initiation of an accelerated rail network maintenance program.
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At a cost of more than HK$84 billion ($11 billion), the Express Rail Link will link up with the rest of China's high-speed rail network and roughly halve the journey time between Hong Kong and the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou to 48 minutes.
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The Transportation Department said Tuesday it intends to cancel $929 million in federal grant funds for California's scaled-back high-speed rail network, and that it is "actively exploring every legal option" to take back $2.5 billion in funds already given to the state for the project.
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Modi also named a new minister for the railways to restore confidence in the world's fourth-biggest rail network after a string of accidents, as well as a new leader to head a planned clean up of the river Ganges that has failed to make headway.
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If Republicans have staked their message, in large part, on suburban distrust of the big city, the region is increasingly knitted together by a thriving tech economy at companies like Amazon and Microsoft, and an expanding rapid transit rail network that is tying people closer to Seattle.
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Over the next 18 days, dozens of officials and engineers from both Koreas will live and work on the six-car train, traveling more than 1,600 miles as they study the North's rail network and consider what it would take to bring it up to international standards.
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Officials have not yet given a cause for the tragedy, but India's railway minister, Piyush Goyal, announced a review of the safety and capacity of all such spots in Mumbai's suburban rail network, saying it would be a top priority to widen and repair overpasses where needed.
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"This successful pilot run puts us firmly on track to meet our goal of operating the world's first fully-autonomous heavy haul, long distance rail network, which will unlock significant safety and productivity benefits for the business," Chris Salisbury, Rio Tinto Iron Ore chief executive, said in a statement.
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"To accelerate the transition to a healthier, more secure and climate-safe future, we need to build the equivalent of a high-speed rail network – a smarter, more flexible system that maximizes the use of variable sources of renewable energy, and accommodates decentralized and community-based generation," Zervos added.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazil's Vale SA on Monday reported second-quarter iron ore and pellet production that was a record for an April-to-June period, using a vast rail network to get around the effects of a trucker strike that rattled the country's economy in May.
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A Midwestern high-speed rail network that ran from Southern Illinois to Southern Michigan would not just link wealthy investment hubs like Louisville, Ky., and Columbus, Ohio; by tying in high-unemployment cities like Dayton, it would make it easier for workers to commute to where the jobs are.
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"The UK's road and rail network could dramatically reduce carbon emissions and other pollutants, congestion could be reduced through higher-density use of road space enabled by automated vehicles, and mobility could be available when we want it, where we want it and how we want it," it adds.
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They say free InterRail tickets - typically month-long passes letting young people travel across Europe's rail network at will - could rekindle enthusiasm for the European Union and bring youngsters together to counter the rising nationalism seen in Britain's vote to quit the bloc and in many other countries.
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A day after the state joined 15 others in filing a lawsuit challenging the president's emergency declaration on the border, the Transportation Department said it was looking into ways to claw back $2.5 billion in federal funds it had already spent on the state's high-speed rail network.
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A day later, the Transportation Department said that it was exploring legal options to get back $2.5 billion in federal funds it had already spent on California's high-speed rail network, and that it was terminating a $929 million federal grant to the California High-Speed Rail Authority.
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