U.S. HIGH SPEED RAIL COALITION

The U.S. High Speed Rail Coalition mobilizes leading unions, companies, and public servants to advocate for investments and policies that will finally make high-speed rail a reality in America.
We use a wide array of advocacy tools to persuade policymakers to prioritize high-speed rail. Launched by the U.S. High Speed Rail Association in response to the Biden Administration's Infrastructure Decade, the Coalition's advocacy campaigns build upon the Association's ongoing work to promote the benefits of high-speed rail.
Since the launch of the campaign in the Summer of 2021, we have persuaded Congress and the California State Legislature to create tens of billions of dollars in opportunities for high-speed rail. With $66 billion in passenger rail funds available in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, our aim moving forward is to secure billions of dollars in grants for key high-speed rail projects as the law is implemented. We must seize this unique moment of opportunity for high-speed rail. Join our all-hands-on-deck effort and enlist in the most significant high-speed rail campaign in years.
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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

CAMPAIGN CO-CHAIRS

SECRETARY RAY LAHOOD USDOT Secretary 2009-2013
SECRETARY ANTHONY FOXXUSDOT Secretary 2013-2017
ROD DIRIDONChair Emeritus California High-Speed Rail Authority

GOOD UNION JOBS

Building a more competitive America
Launching a high-speed rail revolution across America will help to rebuild the middle class by creating hundreds of thousands of good-paying, highly-skilled union jobs constructing new lines, building high-speed trains, producing steel, and manufacturing rail components. We can transform regions across America into global rail manufacturing hubs, re-opening and retooling idled factories to produce electric railcars, components, and track. High-speed rail stations lead to local economic booms, which create even more jobs.

CLIMATE & ENERGY SECURITY

Combating the climate emergency
Across America, fossil-fueled cars and planes are polluting vulnerable communities and accelerating climate breakdown. High-speed rail provides a systemic solution to our mounting climate, pollution, and congestion crises. Powered by electricity, high-speed trains can run on renewable energy. Throughout the world, bullet trains have reduced demand for climate-warming highways, short-haul flights, and cars. High-speed rail is our ticket to the future.

CONVENIENCE & SAFETY

Providing travel at the speed of life
America’s aging transportation system creates endless headaches and frustration. Access to affordable high-speed rail can make life more pleasurable for all of us by providing a faster, cheaper and safer alternative to endless traffic jams and airport security lines and delays. High-speed rail connects mid-sized cities and towns to large economic centers, easing the strain on housing markets in major cities while boosting growth in nearby communities.
U.S. HIGH SPEED RAIL COALITION
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