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Obama announces inter-city rail funding programme

2009-04-17T11:06:00

President Obama.

USA: An ambitious strategic programme to spend $13bn on 10 'high speed' rail corridors over five years was unveiled by President Barack Obama on April 16, as part of an initiative to reduce fuel consumption, pollution, traffic congestion and airport overcrowding.

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