Posted on 11/20/2009 6:58:54 AM PST by Willie Green
RZD President Vladimir Yakunin gave United States Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood a presentation on the program to develop high-speed rail transport in Russia.
The presentation took place at the RZD Science and Technical Information Centre at Rizhsky Station, and was attended by the US ambassador to Russia, John Beyrle.
The RZD president showed the high-speed Sapsan train to the delegation from the US Department of Transportation, and described the program to develop high-speed rail transport in Russia up to 2030.
The US transportation secretary said he was impressed by the first Russian high-speed train, built jointly by German and Russian engineers. He noted that the railway systems of Russia and the United States have much in common, and that the Russian program to develop high-speed rail transport is of great interest to Washington in the light of the new US administration’s project to create a high-speed national rail network.
High speed rail is every commie’s wet dream. You see them actually admit they think middle America should be taxed to provide this on the coasts.
Just think of the jobs it would create, especially if the track was laid without the use of power tools.
Put your backs into it, comrades!
Just think of the jobs it would create, especially if the track was laid without the use of power tools.
That sounds more like the Bush Administration's policy on illegal immigration.
And Russia has been such a leader in all aspects of technological advancement....
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Bingo !
And it works about as well as communism did. Benefits for the elite, misery for the masses.
"Public transportation" is a farce conducted for the benefit of engineering consulting firms and fat transportation bureaucracies. The actual public gets screwed.
Willie “I’m Still Beating A Dead Horse” Green.
Well, well - US is interested in Russian-made trains which are designed to run on far wider rails - this would be an interesting purchace - train that fit no US rails...
Tax hike time —— again!!!
Automation of farm production? That’s for Australia. Americans prefer cheap Mexican labor. It makes the food better, you know.
Disney had Steam Boat Willie, Free Republic has Marxist Willie
You ACORN organizers are just afraid that high-speed rail might divert funds away from your welfare checks.
Your "pot/kettle/black" routine has been stale for too many years, Johnnie.
Urban rail is laid out by architects with no knowledge of the economic structure of cities, their real estate and labor markets or the innate American desire to own his or her own means of transport. That’s why in St. Louis we got a system from where nobody lives to where nobody works.
New thread, same challenge Willie. Name for us three of these commuter rail lines that pay for themselves without massive, perpetual taxpayer paid subsidies from local and state Government?
Intercity rail is the victim of its own high price and bad service.
Name for us three of these commuter rail lines that pay for themselves without massive, perpetual taxpayer paid subsidies from local and state Government?
Monorails and ICTS (intermediate Capacity) Lines
with Operating Surplus ("Profit"), Year 2000
- Kitakyushu Monorail
- Kobe New Transit Co. (ICTS "Portliner" and "Rokkoliner")
- Osaka Monorail
- Saitama New Urban Transport (ICTS "New Shuttle")
- Shonan Monorail
- Tokyo Monorail
- Tokyo municipal monorail (Ueno Park, 1999)
- Yokohama New Transit Co., Ltd. (ICTS "Kanazawa Seaside Line")
- Yurikamome (ICTS, Tokyo)
Streetcar/LRT Systems
with Operating Surplus ("Profit"), Year 2000
- Enoshima Electric Railway
- Hakodate municipal streetcar system
- Kagoshima municipal streetcar system
- Nagasaki Electric Railway Co., Ltd
- Okayama Electric Tramway Co., Ltd
- Tokyo municipal streetcar system
- Tokyu Corp. (suburban Tokyo)
- Toyama Railroad Co., Ltd (streetcar division, Toyama)
Subway Systems
with Operating Surplus ("Profit"), Year 2000
- Fukuoka subway
- Kobe subway
- Hokushin Express Electric Railway Co., Ltd. (private-sector extension of Kobe subway)
- Nagoya subway
- Osaka subway
- North Osaka Express Electric Railway (third-sector extension of Osaka subway)
- Tokyo-Teito Rapid Transit Authority
- Toyo Rapid Railway (third-sector extension of Tokyo subway)
Major City Electric Railway Systems
with Operating Surplus ("Profit"), Year 2000
(Size descriptors refer to network size)
- Aichi Peripheral Railway (Nagoya, small)
- Eizan Electric Railway Co., Ltd. (Kyoto, small, LRT-like)
- Hakone Tozan Railway (Tokyo, small)
- Hankyu Corp. (Osaka, large)
- Hanshin Electric Railway Co., Ltd. (Osaka, small but considered one of the "big 15" companies)
- Hokuso Development Railway (Tokyo, small)
- izu-Hakone Railway (Tokyo, small)
- Keihan Electric Railway Co., Ltd. (Osaka, large)
- Keihin Electric Express Railway Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, large)
- Keio Electric Railway Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, large)
- Keisei Electric Railway Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, large)
- Kinki Nippon Railway Co., Ltd. (Osaka, very large)
- Kobe Electric Railway Co., Ltd. (Kobe , large)
- Mizuma Railway (Osaka, tiny, LRT-like)
- Nagoya Railroad Co., Ltd. (Nagoya, very large)
- Nankai Electric Railway Co., Ltd. (Osaka, large)
- Nishi-Nippon Railroad Co, Ltd (Fukuoka, large)
- Nose Electric Railway (Osaka, small)
- Odakyu Electric Railway Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, large)
- Sagami Railway Co., Ltd. (Yokohama, medium)
- San-yo Electric Railway Co., Ltd. (Kobe, large)
- Seibu Railway Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, large)
- Semboku Rapid Railway (Osaka, small)
- Shin-Keisei Electric Railway (Tokyo, small)
- Sobu Nagareyama Electric Railway (Tokyo, tiny, LRT-like)
- Tobu Railway Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, very large)
- Tokyu Corporation (Tokyo, large)
Provincial Electric Railway Systems
with Operating Surplus ("Profit"), Year 2000
- Enshu Railway (Hamamatsu, interurban LRT)
- Fukushima Transport (Fukushima, interurban LRT)
- Hokuetsu Express Co. (northeast of Nagano)
- iyo Railway Co., Ltd. (Matsuyama, interurban LRT)
- Shizuoka Railway Co., Ltd. (Shizuoka, small, interurban LRT)
- Toyohashi Railroad Co., Ltd. (Toyohashi, small, interurban LRT)
It should also be noted that the three private-sector successors to JNR on Honshu – JR-East, JR-Central, and JR-West – also reported operating profits.
He seems to have coordinated with some buds to attack at the same time. Have fun guys. No one cares what you think.
Name for me 3 commuter rail lines that operate at a profit with OUT taxpayer subsides?
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