A much larger share, $175 billion, would encourage the purchasing of electric vehicles. The plan calls for $25 billion in airport construction funds. But the then Democrat-held Congress didn’t pass the bill.īiden’s infrastructure plan calls for $80 billion in Amtrak repairs and $85 billion for regional mass transit. In 1992, Bill Clinton vowed as a candidate to connect cities with high-speed rail and in he pitched a $1.3 billion plan to do so during his first year as president. Commercial supersonic air travel ended has not been in use since 2003. The president’s vision for dramatically improving air travel speed also would require significant advances, given the Concorde’s much slower rate of travel compared to what he described.ĭemocrats for decades pitched high-speed rail, but never put political capital into making it happen. By contrast, the top speed of the Boeing 747 passenger jet is about 570 mph.
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The fastest train being introduced for public use - Japan’s L0 Series Maglev - will operate at a maximum speed of 310 miles per hour when it opens in 2027. John Minchillo/APīiden’s vision for trains as fast as planes would require dramatic technological process. The idea of breakneck travel speed was not specifically spelled out in Biden’s infrastructure proposal, which came under fire in part for significant proposed spending in areas that aren’t traditionally viewed as infrastructure, including a proposed $400 billion for home and community-based health care.Ī relatively small amount of money - $25 billion - is proposed for “transformative” projects that are “too large or complex for existing funding programs.” President Biden discussed a high speed train in the United States as part of his multi-trillion dollar infrastructure plan. Biden’s proposed rate of air travel would be more than 15 times faster than the Concorde’s cruising speed. The globe’s circumference is 24,901 miles.
So much is changing and we have got to lead it.” Vice President Kamala Harris listens as President Joe Biden speaks during an event on the American Jobs Plan in the South Court Auditorium. To be able, figuratively, if you may, if we decide to do it, traverse the world in about an hour, travel 21,000 miles an hour. We’re going to talk about commercial aircraft flying at subsonic speeds - supersonic speeds. He added: “I tell the kids, the young people who work for me, tell my kids when I go on college campuses: they’re going to see more change in the next 10 years than we’ve seen in the last 50 years. Imagine a world where you and your family can travel coast to coast without a single tank of gas on a high-speed train close to as fast as you can go across the country in a plane,” Biden said at the White House.
“What we’re really doing is raising the bar on what we can imagine. President Biden on Wednesday sought to sell his $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan by pulling out some decades-old promises of futuristic technologies like a transcontinental bullet train that’s as fast as planes and supersonic jets that circle the globe in one hour.Ī national high-speed rail network has failed to gain traction for decades and commercial supersonic transport ended in 2003 with the retirement of the Concorde fleet, which flew from Paris and London to New York in about 3 1/2 hours. Joe Biden’s spend-more, get-less rule and other commentary MTA unveils ‘stunning’ $30M staircase at Times Square subway stationīiden helped sink Build Back Better with Sinema slip, Satchel Paige talk: book
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