California High-Speed Rail Authority was created in 1996.
Yes
High speed rail trains generally run on standard tracks that are continuously welded together. The trains are made to have better aerodynamics so that speed can be increased.
Light rail is for street cars and trolleys. Rapid rail is for high speed trains and subways.
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Probably not in your lifetime!
The Onion News Network - 2007 Obama Replaces Costly High-Speed Rail Plan with High-Speed Bus Plan was released on: USA: 16 November 2010
High-speed rail passenger systems were pioneered in Japan in 1964. European countries eventually followed, and in 2000 high-speed service in the United States was introduced with the Acela Express, running between Washington, D.C., and Boston.
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Defining "high-speed rail" as the regular operation on new purpose-built track of trains running at speeds of 250 km/h or more, the first high-speed (and, so far, only) line in England is the Channel Tunnel Rail Link (opened in full in November 2007) on which trains operate at up to 300 km/h.
Given that many High Speed rail lines have been completed throughout the world since the first TGV route was opened in France in 1981 (LGV Sud-Est between Paris and Lyon), then they have been afforded.
about 15 minutes from london