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4 unusual facts about California High-Speed Rail


California High-Speed Rail

On October 2, 2009, then-Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger unveiled California's official application for ARRA high-speed rail stimulus funding.

The California Legislative Analyst's Office published recommendations on May 10, 2011, which they said will help the high-speed rail project be developed successfully.

The Legislative Analyst's Office published a report in December 2011 indicating that the incremental development path outlined by CHSRA may not be legal.

Elon Musk has criticised the project as too expensive and resulting in a train that is too slow.


Allhallows, Kent

Under these proposals, called the Thames Hub, new high-speed rail lines would be built connecting Kent and Europe with North London, and the North East and North West of England.

Bangalore high-speed rail link

The Bangalore high-speed rail link (HSRL) is a proposed high-speed rail line to connect Bangalore's city center with Kempegowda International Airport (BIA) at Devanahalli.

California High-Speed Rail Authority

The authority is composed of nine members including five members appointed by the Governor, two members appointed by the Senate Committee on Rules, and two members appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly.

Desert Wind

There are several private, competing plans to restore rail service to Las Vegas, including the high-speed XpressWest, and the more conventional X Train and Z-Train.

HSL-Oost

HSL-Oost (Dutch: Hogesnelheidslijn-Oost, English: High-Speed Line East) is the name of the now-cancelled high-speed railway line from Amsterdam to Germany via the Dutch cities of Utrecht and Arnhem.

Jaén railway station

The AVE (high-speed rail) link was established on the Madrid–Jaén high speed railway line between Madrid – Atocha station and Jaén station, providing travellers with frequent connections everyday.

Kutno railway station

At the station trains of all categories are stopping: slow trains, fast trains, express train and some of the InterCity, EuroCity and EuroNight trains.

Lansdale/Doylestown Line

The ex-Reading's electrification system, however, relies on a transformer at Wayne Junction, and separate high-voltage pylons for longer-distance trains, similar to those found on European high-speed rail systems and on the Northeast Corridor between New Haven, Connecticut and Boston.

Schiphol–Antwerp high-speed railway

The Schiphol - Antwerp High-Speed Line is a high-speed rail line connecting Schiphol Airport, 9 km southwest of Amsterdam, to Antwerp, Belgium.

Thames Hub Airport

In November 2011 Lord Foster launched the concept of the Thames Hub - an integrated infrastructure development in the Thames Estuary which included a high-speed rail line, a combined Thames road and rail crossing and a flood protection barrier incorporating Renewable energy generation#Hydropower renewable energy generation, and a new 150 million passenger hub airport.

XpressWest

XpressWest (formerly known as DesertXpress) is a private venture proposal backed by a Las Vegas, Nevada hotel developer to build a privately funded high-speed rail passenger train in the Western United States to connect Palmdale and Victorville, California to Las Vegas and later to Phoenix, Arizona, Salt Lake City, Utah, and Denver, Colorado.


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Palmdale Transportation Center

It may also be a future station of the planned Desert Xpress high-speed rail line to Las Vegas upon completion of the California High-Speed Rail line.