High Speed Rail: America’s Future

  • The U.S. High Speed Rail Coalition is convening leading unions, businesses, and public servants to build an American transportation system that protects our climate, connects our communities, and creates good union jobs. A bipartisan group of former Secretaries of Transportation — Ray LaHood, Anthony Foxx, and Norman Mineta — serve as co-chairs of the coalition. High-speed rail will deliver on the Biden Administration’s top priorities of climate, jobs, and equity, and, to that end, the U.S. High Speed Rail Coalition is supporting a federal advocacy campaign to ensure that America builds back better with high-speed rail. The coalition supports four goals that will launch America’s high-speed rail revolution:

  • • $205 billion in federal funds for high-speed rail development
  • • The robust labor standards included in the American High-Speed Rail Act
  • • A High-Speed Rail Development Authority within the USDOT
  • • A Rail Trust Fund

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COALITION CO-CHAIRS

Norman Mineta
USDOT Secretary, 2001 - 2006
Ray LaHood
USDOT Secretary, 2009 - 2013
Anthony Foxx
USDOT Secretary, 2013 - 2017
Rod Diridon
Chair Emeritus, California High Speed Rail Authority

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Our Executive Committee of business and labor leaders is ready to build back better with high-speed rail. Our members are AECOM, Brightline, the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen, Grimshaw, HJI Group, HNTB, Quandel Consulting, Renfe, The National Conference of Firemen & Oilers 32BJ SEIU, The Teamsters Rail Conference, The U.S. High Speed Rail Association, Waterford Solutions Limited, and WSP.
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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 Safety

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.

Quality of Life for all

Providing travel at the speed of life
America’s aging transportation system creates endless headaches and frustration while exacerbating inequality. Access to affordable high-speed rail can make life more pleasurable for all of us by providing a faster, cheaper alternative to endless traffic jams and airport security lines. 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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