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Q&A: Mad Men's Vincent Kartheiser on High-Speed Rail

Vincent Kartheiser is finally buying a car—but he'd rather not have to. We talk with the Mad Men star about the merits of mass transit.

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How to Sell High-Speed Rail, Mad Men Style

Watch the Mad Men geniuses of marketing brainstorm ways to sell America on high-speed rail.

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Railroad Revival Tour: Mumford & Sons, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeroes, and Old Crow Medicine Show Embark on Epic Train Tour of American Southwest

Call it the modern day Festival Express. Three scratchy alt-rock bands embark on a rolling hootenanny of a concert tour. All for trains.

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Who Gets Florida's High Speed Rail Money?

Florida governor Rick Scott rejected $2.4 billion of high-speed rail. Can the Northeast line get that love?

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GOOD Design Daily: How Jersey City Is Moving Beyond the Car

A new video series by Streetsfilm showcases the various ways that designers and citizens have managed to shift auto-centric culture.

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"Amtrak Joe" Biden Reveals High-Speed Rail Plans

It's a $53 billion investment over the next six years. The ultimate goal: Giving 80 percent of Americans access to high-speed rail within 25 years.

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Map: Where Will High-Speed Rail Be Most Effective

A new report has ranked the cities that would benefit the most from high-speed rail. See if yours made the list.

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California Gets Wisconsin and Ohio's Rail Money

Wisconsin and Ohio don't want their money for fast, efficient transportation? Maybe that's better for the future of high-speed rail anyway.

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Chinese Train Hits 302 MPH, Breaks Commercial Speed Record

If we had trains this fast, one could get from Los Angeles to Portland, Oregon, in five or six hours.

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It's Official: California's First Stretch of High-speed Rail Selected

The path to California's transportation future will run through Fresno. But it won't have trains.

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California's Confusing Choice for Its First Stretch of High-Speed Rail

High-speed rail! It's the future of efficient transportation and it's coming to... a relatively rural stretch of California's Central Valley?

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Two Thirds of Americans Would Use High-Speed Rail

According to a new survey, 62 percent of Americans would use high-speed rail. So lets get it going already.

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The Merits of the Diverging Diamond Interchange

This strange style of highway interchange that requires drivers to switch to the wrong side of the road actually reduced accidents in Missouri.

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They Just Finished Digging the World's Longest Tunnel

When Swiss engineers aren't burrowing out spaces for large hadron colliders, they're off digging train tunnels. Really, really long train tunnels.

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RailLA Wants You to Envision the Future of Transit

A new advocacy group called railLA has formed to mobilize popular (and business) support to make sure we get a modern high-speed rail system in...

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Reasonable People Disagree About Electric Cars

Public transit advocates and road warriors have always competed for funding and attention, but now electric vehicles have introduced a sort of...