Sullivan is also the passenger committee chairman for the Railway Progress Institute. There was too much inflow on four tracks. Environmentalist Michael Replogle, transportation director at Environmental Defense, noted that in his view, corridor development and passenger train expansion, is a sustainable development, and the economy and environment, can be equal. As we develop high-speed rail, we have to be accountable to their equality. He said people have the right to know about the effects of their actions before decisions are made.
Highways are the principal culprits, but rail can be, too.
Taking sulphur out of diesel fuel will affect the railroad industry, but that is vital to making the catalysts work efficiently. Jean-Pierre Ruiz, Talgo's man in the Pacific Northwest, observed that 20,000 passenger trains ran daily in the U.S. at one time, but only 400 today. Ruiz is Renfe Talgo's president and chief operating officer. Regarding his firm's trains, he said Talgos enjoyed a 95.9 percent reliability rate, and 100 percent availabilty rate. He said they were tested at the FRA-AAR tracks in Pueblo, Colo., last fall.