Created by NC3D for the California High Speed Rail Authority, this video is a combination of various animated renderings of the proposed high speed rail route throughout the state of California.

www.cahighspeedrail.ca.gov


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ_pz_-sSYQ




Thank you, Californians, for passing the Proposition 1A.






http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_high-...country#Vietnam


Vietnam
Vietnam Railways are planning a 1,630 km (1,010 miles) high-speed link from its capital Hanoi in the north, and second city Ho Chi Minh City in the south, capable of running at 250 to 300 km/h (155 to 186 mph). The funding of the $33 billion line will mostly come from the Vietnamese government, with the help of Japanese aid.[6] The current single track line has journey times from just under thirty hours[7] , and initially (2013) this would be cut to less than nine hours. From there, a speedup to 5 hours (300 km/h or 186 mph max) by 2025 is planned. The Vietnamese prime minister has set a target of completing the line by 2013, just six years, sooner than the previously announced nine year construction time.[8] These new rail lines will be the standard gauge of 1.435 m (the existing line is a narrow gauge of 1.000 m)[9]







http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_High_Speed_Rail



The California High-Speed Rail project is a future high-speed rail system in the state of California and headed by California High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA). The project was approved by California voters on November 4, 2008 with the passage of Proposition 1A authorizing US$9.95 billion for the project. The CHSRA is currently tasked with completing final planning, design, and environmental efforts. When built, high-speed trains capable of 220 mph (350 km/h) will link San Francisco and Los Angeles in as little as two and a half hours. The planned system would also serve other major California cities, such as Sacramento, San Jose, Fresno, and San Diego.

Construction efforts are anticipated to begin in the next couple years. An implementation plan approved in August 2005 estimates that it would take eight to eleven years to "develop and begin operation of an initial segment of the California high-speed train".[2]

300kph on the KTX


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIetDRMm2dY



November 2007

$33 billion for a high-speed railway? What do we get for 33 billions again ?

Those Vietnamese can't build $hit. They can only depend on help from Korea, Japan or some more technologically advance nations. Better make it 5000 billions dollars HAHAHA!!! Hey, just being honest.

Be nice, okay, Binary Bits.

Honest my @$$. Sounds more like jealousy HAHAHA!!! STFU!!!!

If we had $33 billion dollars, Siemen would be on their knees begging us to choose them as the contractor for this project

Y donu ern $ hon-nut WAY?

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I concluded that u only .5 of a b!tch, 1/4 a moron who must depend on other.

Having a high-speed train would be great but I think it would be in a very very long time before this project is actually carried out because other national infrastructure projects will get their priorities first according to needs and price tag. I believe these big projects will go first:

Thanh Hoa oil refinery
Long Son oil refinery
Long Thanh International Airport and the expansion of Noi Bai
The 2 nuclear power plants
Several thousand km of highway

The shinkansen train project would probably be our last big national infrastructure project

Take a hint, negro!





That's what i was talking about all along. $33 billion project that would only produces a high-speed train that would linked the southern province all the way across to the northern province. I still don't see why would the goverment would willing to put so much money into a high-speed train project! What so good about a high-speed train?

It's the stupid foreign media hype for the most part. They do not know that VN has more important national projects to do first like those that I listed then before we can even think about the train project

How about a subway station of some sorts. All the major Asian countries are doing it, why can't we??

1 km of subway in Vietnam cost about $100 millions. One subway route project in either Hanoi and Saigon cost at least $1 billion . Too expensive and are not desperately in need as the oil refinery projects right now. Subway will have to wait too