Siemens, an international engineering firm with its U.S. headquarters in Washington, D.C., and plants throughout the United States, is hungry to build high-speed train sets for a proposed Florida high-speed rail line.<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay online (tbo.com) reports that Siemens, which has built high-speed trains in Austria, Belgium, China, France and Germany, has erected a billboard in Tampa showing one of its trains and proclaiming, \u201cMore Speed. Less Gas. With Siemens’ Answers for Florida High-Speed Rail.”<\/p>\n
Florida is intent on completing a high-speed rail line between Tampa and Orlando by 2015 \u2013 and Miami by 2018 — and some $3 billion is in play for winning bidders, says Tampa Bay online. A lead contractor will be chosen within the next year.<\/p>\n
Actually, 40 companies are showing an interest in the project, reports Tampa Bay online.<\/p>\n
If the Florida project proceeds as its Department of Transportation expects, Florida\u2019s 88-mile line between Tampa and Orlando will be America\u2019s first, says Tampa Bay online.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Federal Railroad Administration has created a set of strict \u2018Buy America\u2019 standards for high-speed rail contracts being financed through the Obama administrations $8-billion nationwide high-speed rail program,\u201d reports Tampa Bay online, and Siemens points to its California plant that has built rail equipment in the U.S. for a quarter century.<\/p>\n
Florida already has received $1.25 billion in federal money for its project \u2013 nearly half the total projected cost for the Tampa-Orlando line.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Siemens, an international engineering firm with its U.S. headquarters in Washington, D.C., and plants throughout the United States, is hungry to build high-speed train sets for a proposed Florida high-speed rail line. Tampa Bay online (tbo.com) reports that Siemens, which has built high-speed trains in Austria, Belgium, China, France and Germany, has erected a billboard […]<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31,45,9],"tags":[298,361,525,526,527],"member_types":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n