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Financed the first draft of the only American railway line dedicated express to the high speed
California High-Speed Rail Authority joins to the International Union of Railways
July 11, 2012
On July 6, 2012 it will be remembered as an important date for the rail shipment in the United States. Slid friday, in fact, the Senate of the State of California given the go-ahead free to the total provisions that preview the financing for 4,7 billion dollars for the construction of the first draft of 210 Madeira-Bakersfield kilometers of the new railway line that will connect Los Angeles to San Francisco, the first and only American railway dedicated express to the services to high speed and whose realization will altogether cost - second the forecasts - 68 billion dollars.
The approval of the provisions is received with satisfaction from California High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA): "the legislative action - the president of the Authority has commented, Dan Richard - starts up the plan of modernization of the railway net in all the State of California. California will not only be the first State of the nation to construct a railway system to high speed in order to connect our urbanized areas, but it will modernize and upgrade also the railway systems to local and regional level".
The green light of the Senate of California has collected also approval of railway association international UIC (International Union of Railways): "world-wide the railway community - the general manager of the UIC, Jean-Pierre Loubinoux has declared - welcomes to this decision to start the performance of the railway net to high speed in the United States. As day after day is demonstrated in the nations that they have introduced the railway activities to high speed, this type of transport will contribute decisively to the development of a system of sure, efficient, sustainable mobility and oriented to the requirements of the customers who serve she is the users who the society in its complex".
Yesterday while, in the course of the eightieth assembly of the UIC in course to Philadelphia, the adhesion of California High-Speed Rail is approved of Authority to the international association.
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On July 6, 2012 it will be remembered as an important date for the rail shipment in the United States. Slid friday, in fact, the Senate of the State of California given the go-ahead free to the total provisions that preview the financing for 4,7 billion dollars for the construction of the first draft of 210 Madeira-Bakersfield kilometers of the new railway line that will connect Los Angeles to San Francisco, the first and only American railway dedicated express to the services to high speed and whose realization will altogether cost - second the forecasts - 68 billion dollars.
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