Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Fwd: Trains go electric
In Europe, train infrastructure is being adapted to high speed train traffic. Meanwhile here in North America we are still plodding along with an outdated and much slower diesel counterpart. Our tracks are an outdated, a vestage of a bygone era of slow freight traffic. Our rail needs to update or we risk being left behind. I think we know this, but lobby groups (auto/truck/other) have too much power directing our transportation decisions.
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Kind of romantic though.
The Dutch finally (after 35 years of planning) are connected to the highspeedlines of Western Europe! Obviously we needed to spare some money, so we decided to cut down on the trains. Still waiting for them.
Isolde
Good point.
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