“A new government report on high-speed rail in the Pacific Northwest recommends that Oregon, Washington and British Columbia formalize their interest in a Cascadia bullet train by creating an independent body to plan and eventually build it…”
read more“On its current growth trajectory, the Cascadia megaregion — which connects Portland, Seattle and Vancouver, B.C. — will face congestion by 2035 that resembles the current traffic in Los Angeles or San Jose…”
read more“A new report outlines a strategy for creating a Cascadia mega-region, complete with high-speed traffic and building up smaller cities to serve as outlying hubs for large urban areas…”
read more“The idea for Cascadia High-Speed Rail, connecting Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver, is still in its infancy. But one of the region’s most powerful tech companies sees it as a boost to business…”
read more“‘The biggest thing that it takes to get these moving is good leadership, and they have that like I haven’t seen anywhere else in the country,’ U.S. High Speed Rail Association president and CEO Andy Kunz told CityLab…”
read more“Microsoft is determined to turn the Pacific Northwest into a connected innovation mega-region akin to Silicon Valley, starting with better transportation between the biggest cities in the area…”
read more“Cascadia conference will ‘hear big, moon-shot ideas, what we can do to really shape not only our own future, but the future of the world.’”
read more“The plan includes building a rail from Portland which would pass through Seattle before reaching Vancouver B.C. It would be capable of ushering trains along the corridor faster than 250 mph…”
read more“As far as very fast passenger train service goes, we’re up in the nosebleeds at the Moda Center and nowhere near spitting distance of first place. We are mired in the caboose or grasping at a rope tied to the back of the caboose…”
read more“Officials in Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia are in the very early stages of planning a bullet train that could travel between Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, British Columbia, in about two hours…”
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