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We ❤️ Trains. Let’s talk about #highspeedrail in North America. 🚆

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CA High-Speed Rail 🚄@CaHSRA9 Dec 2022
ICYMI - @WTSLosAngeles named the Authority they're 2022 Employer of the Year! More than half of the Authority’s total workforce is female – as well as most of the executive team. 🔗 Read about the award here: bit.ly/3hbPJlV
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CA High-Speed Rail 🚄@CaHSRA7 Nov 2022
‼️ We're proud to announce that over 9,000 construction jobs have been created since the start of construction on the nation’s first high-speed rail system! 👷 As construction booms & jobs continue to grow, we want to thank all the hard-working men & women working to #BuildHSR!
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E.W. Niedermeyer@Tweetermeyer3 Nov 2022
The people who are saying this constitutes another Elon Musk failure simply don't realize that Hyperloop did exactly what is what intended to do: bleed off support for high-speed rail.
Verge Transportation (@vergecars) profile pictureVerge Transportation@vergecars3 Nov 2022
Elon Musk’s first Hyperloop tunnel in California is gone theverge.com/2022/11/3/23438…
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CA High-Speed Rail 🚄@CaHSRA31 Oct 2022
Today's for goblins and ghouls, but you know what'll be scarier than Halloween? The 405 in a couple weeks... Fear not… this is just another reason to #BuildHSR xitter.cf/KTLA/status/1463357141…
KTLA (@KTLA) profile pictureKTLA
@KTLA24 Nov 2021
Thanksgiving travelers are tying up traffic, with cars backed up on the 10 Fwy interchange to the 405 Fwy on Tuesday night ktla.com/news/nationworld/in…
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Louder for the people in the back 📢
Secretary Pete Buttigieg (@SecretaryPete) profile pictureSecretary Pete Buttigieg
@SecretaryPete19 Oct 2022
We can invest in high speed rail while improving the system we currently have. Under #BIL, we’re preparing American passenger rail for the future.
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What *really* killed streetcars? They stopped running efficiently because they were swamped by private automobiles. This stunning colorized footage from 1930s Los Angeles shows it well...
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We can invest in high speed rail while improving the system we currently have. Under #BIL, we’re preparing American passenger rail for the future.
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BART
@SFBART14 Oct 2022
Two strangers meet on an empty BART train. Both are working on a crossword. What happens next is the premise of “2 Across,” a play by Jerry Mayer set entirely on a BART train.
April Grant and David Boyll in rehearsals for “2 Across” at Pacifica Spindrift Players.

ALT April Grant and David Boyll in rehearsals for “2 Across” at Pacifica Spindrift Players.

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. @SenatorCantwell Is Right: No More Messing Around A few developments in recent weeks make it hard not to wonder if @Amtrak only read the Cliffs’ Notes version of last year’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law... railpassengers.org/happening…
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Cascadia Rail@CascadiaRail3 Oct 2022
British Columbia contributes an additional $300K to the Cascadia #highspeedrail project!🇨🇦 vancouversun.com/news/local-…
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Félix@felixdoublev27 Sep 2022
1/ A small thread about how Switzerland is effectively using railways for almost everything - in this example household waste logistics. Let's have a look at how garbage is transported in the Canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
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InnoTrans@InnoTrans20 Sep 2022
Could you sum up the first day of InnoTrans any better? #InnoTrans2022 @messeberlin
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Lukasz Malinowski
@Lukasz_Malin20 Sep 2022
🌈🚆Takie powroty z targów tylko w Berlinie. Tęcza jak nic zwiastuje świetną przyszłość kolej :) #kolej #InnoTrans2022 #Innotrans – at Berlin, Germany
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CA High-Speed Rail 🚄@CaHSRA20 Sep 2022
Invited to speak on a global stage today with #rail partners from Japan, Germany and France at @InnoTrans - about how CA is leading the US in #highspeedrail construction – at Berlin, Germany
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CA High-Speed Rail 🚄@CaHSRA16 Sep 2022
How fast is our top design speed of 220mph? The average football field with no end zones is 300 feet. Travelling at 220mph equals 1,161,600 feet in an hour or 322 feet a second. Our trains will travel the length of a football field every second at top speed! #FactFriday
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T.J. Doyle@CommsTeej13 Sep 2022
"Transit benefits everybody. Even the people who drive. The more people who transit the less congestion there is for drivers. We've got to have a full system approach here because everything in transportation is connected to everything else" @SecretaryPete abc13.com/us-transportation-…
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Currently America has a C- in infrastructure. But thanks to the most transformative Congress for transportation since Eisenhower, we’re looking to raise our grade. Read Chair @RepPeterDeFazio’s op-ed on the most productive congress in over 60 years. thehill.com/opinion/congress…

We just had the most productive Congress since the Eisenhower Era — here’s what that means for the...

After 36 years in Congress, all of it on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, I can confidently say this is the most transformative session of Congress for our transportation system sin…

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The Seagull Has Landed@Red__Tim11 Sep 2022
Well, that's, errrrr... one way of putting it.
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BART
@SFBART10 Sep 2022
King Charles rode BART.
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BART
@SFBART10 Sep 2022
BART turns 50 and instead of interviewing a qualified professor/historian or urban planning expert they give space for an anti-government, anti-tax, climate denying think tank that wants to privatize transit. At least watch to see Oscar, our station agent turned manager, shine.
CBS News Bay Area (@KPIXtv) profile pictureCBS News Bay Area@KPIXtv10 Sep 2022
The Bay Area Rapid Transit system is turning 50. It was considered revolutionary for its time but has been derailed by the pandemic and other issues. cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/new…
As BART turns 50, critics say a futuristic dream was fumbled

As BART turns 50, critics say a futuristic dream was fumbled

The Bay Area Rapid Transit system is turning 50. It was considered revolutionary for its time but has been derailed by the pandemic and other issues.

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