Cascadia Rail
@CascadiaRail
Advocating for #HighSpeedRail to connect Vancouver🇨🇦, Bellingham, Seattle, Tacoma, Portland, and Eastern Washington.🇺🇸
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http://cascadiarail.org 22-01-2018 08:07:02
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77% of Seattle voters support high speed rail in the Pacific Northwest cc: Cascadia Rail nwprogressive.org/weblog/2023/03…
Farmer, rural resident suggests #highspeedrail as an alternative to building a new airport that will disrupt locals’ livelihoods.
bellinghamherald.com/news/local/art…
Nobody wants a new airport. If we build #HighSpeedRail to connect our cities in the Cascadia corridor, we'll free up enough capacity at our existing airports that we won't need to build another one. Big environmental win, and protects our precious farmland too. Cascadia Rail
The Seattle Times There's dozens of short range flights Seattle-Tacoma Intl. Airport to places like Yakima & PDX. Instead of another airport, study #HighSpeedRail to get rid of most of these short-haul flights and add more capacity for the longer routes that can only be reached by air. Governor Jay Inslee Cascadia Rail
Did you know? Car crashes cost Washington State $16.5 BILLION annually. That’s 4X the amount of the annual state transportation budget.🤯
(Learnings from @WSDOT leader Roger Millar at #APTAtransform22 .)
British Columbia contributes an additional $300K to the Cascadia #highspeedrail project!🇨🇦
vancouversun.com/news/local-new…
How fast is our top design speed of 220mph?
The average football field with no end zones is 300 feet. Travelling at 220mph equals 1,161,600 feet in an hour or 322 feet a second.
Our trains will travel the length of a football field every second at top speed! #FactFriday
Happening Now:
Mayor Jill talking Cascadia Rail and the #MVLC at #ConnectCascadia Cascadia Innovation Corridor.
Years of planning for a one minute stop in Mount Vernon, but totally worth it!