The Train in Spain Beats the Plane
6 March 2009 - 6:00am
As air travel security tightens and high speed rail expands, getting in and around Spain is becoming easier on the rails than in the sky.
"President Obama's economic stimulus package includes $8 billion for speeding up train travel. America is far behind other industrial countries in high speed rail. A few years ago, Spain was also behind the curve. But the Spanish network is expanding fast, and the trains are beating planes."
Full Story:
Spain's High Speed Trains Faster Than Planes
Source:
NPR, March 4, 2009
»
- Login or register to post comments
- Email this page
- California High Speed Rail Could Use Some Spanish Lessons - Jan 18, 2012
- Spain's Six-Mile Madrid Rio Park Replaces Freeway - Dec 28, 2011
- Spain the Model Train Citizen - Aug 17, 2010
- Spain's High Speed Rail Uses Luxury to Lure - Mar 17, 2010
- America's Spanish High Speed Rail Envy - Jan 18, 2010
“
As an alternative to burial, cremation is no longer green enough, say some environmentalists, because it releases smoke and mercury into the atmosphere.
”


















