U.S. plans to invest $ 8 billion in the development of railways
U.S. President Barack Obama announced his intention to invest $ 8 billion in the development of high-speed railways, said the Air Force.
currently in the U.S. there is only one high-speed railway line linking Washington, New York and Boston.
special grants will be allocated to the development of 13 “high-speed corridors in 31 states.
Obama”s Statement of intent to develop the railways fit into his program to improve the American economy. “It instantly create jobs and lay the foundation of a strong economy of the future” - said Obama.
During the annual address to Congress, the President announced that the priority for this year will be a struggle for the creation of new jobs. The White House believes that the development of rail transport and infrastructure of the country as a whole will work to thousands of professionals.
Earlier
Congress rejected the idea to develop the railways, which was originally part of the state economic stimulus package, totaling 787 billion dollars. But Obama does not refuse to venture. Back in April, he said that the development of high-speed rail will change the usual way of traveling Americans.
At the same time, according to experts, these high-speed lines simply can not be built without the participation of foreign companies. And the gap in technological development in this area is so large that most of the allocated funds and jobs may not be in the United States and abroad. The statement that the U.S. will build a high-speed rail system, using the resources of U.S. companies is comparable to that as if in Bangladesh have decided to deved8dlop the space program, relying on its own development and its production.
recall, despite the fact that the Government intends to finance the 13 lines, while only California actually working on a high-speed lines on which trains will run at speeds up to 300 km /h. The length of the California line will be more than 1200 kilometers: from Sacramento to San Diego, via San Francisco and Los Angeles. This project will spend 2.3 billion dollars.
addition to California, is working on a project in Florida, which should be built “Express branch” from Tampa to Orlando. However, the average speed on this new line will not exceed 140 km /h.
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