High Speed Rail Quotes:

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

- Anthony Albanese

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

topic: Games, Community, Dozen, Interstate, Game Changers

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

- Corrine Brown

topic: Moving, Way, Citizens, Congestion, High Speed Rail

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

- Noam Chomsky

source: Source: www.counterpunch.org

topic: Environmental, Cost, Speed, High Speed, High Speed Rail

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

- Noam Chomsky

source: Source: www.counterpunch.org

topic: Technology, Energy, Needs, Solar Energy, Maximizing

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

- Mike Rutherford

topic: Eye, Railroads, Madness, High Speed Rail

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

- Anthony Albanese

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

topic: Thinking, Today, Tomorrow, High Speed Rail

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

- Greg Abbott

topic: America, Community, Speed, High Speed Rail

The "Green" community, the enviro people, are preoccupied with running all the cars differently. Our techno-grandiosity has us gibbering about high-speed rail - which we don't have the capital for anymore - but nobody is interested in repairing the existing rail system, which would be far less costly and hugely beneficial for us. In short, we are acting cluelessly. And life is tragic. The clueless usually suffer.

- James Howard Kunstler

source: Source: www.terrain.org

topic: Running, Clueless, Car, Repairing, High Speed

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

- Denis Hayes

source: "The Rumpus Interview with Earth Day organiser Denis Hayes". Interview with Melissa Price, therumpus.net. April 22, 2009.

topic: Financing, Large Scale, Money Matters, High Speed, High Speed Rail

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

- Thomas Pogge

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: Country, Thinking, Would Be, Developing Countries, Developed Country

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

- Michelle Malkin

topic: Bridges, California, Pie, Construction Projects, Overseeing

However little president Obama knows or cares about economics, he knows a lot about politics - and especially political rhetoric. 'High-speed rail' is simply another set of loft words to justify continued expansion of government spending. So are words like 'investment in education' or 'investment' in any number of other things, which serves the same political purpose.

- Thomas Sowell

topic: Government, Numbers, Political, Investment In Education, Political Rhetoric

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

- Noam Chomsky

source: Source: www.counterpunch.org

topic: Giving Up, Moving, Effort, Large Scale, Sustainable Energy