January 6, 2024 - asia.nikkei.com -The U.S. federal government has awarded a planning grant to a proposed high-speed rail line in Texas to be built with technology from Japan's shinkansen bullet trains, for a project that has faced delays and ballooning costs.The proposed...
November 29, 2019 - dhakatribune.com -
Not a single passenger has ever been killed or injured on the Shinkansen network over its 55-year history
October of 1964 marked the age of Japan's bullet train era, as Tokyo saw a sleek blue trail...
Updated September 29, 2019 - TRA Opinion -
Gov. Greg Abbott is back from a week long economic development trip to Japan and South Korea, and while he was there rode on the new N700S high-speed train. This is the type...
February 10, 2017 - Â McClatchy Newspapers -
BY CURTIS TATE
Could Donald Trump be the president who brings high-speed rail to America?
The Obama administration spent nearly $10 billion to improve passenger rail service across the country. While it accomplished that...
February 2, 2017 - asia.nekkei.com
TOKYO -- Infrastructure investments in the U.S. by Japan's Government Pension Investment Fund will feature heavily in the economic cooperation package to be discussed at next week's summit in Washington between the two countries' leaders.
The goal...