Source Notes 10

Multi-State Partnership Releases Study on High-Speed Rail Options (Southeast High-Speed Rail Corridor, 01/08/2009)

Summary:

A press release on January 8, 2009 by the Southeast High-Speed Rail Corridor explained a feasibility study of a high-speed rail line though Charlotte, Greenville, Atlanta, and Macon by transportation officials from North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.  This relates to my policy question because the route this release talks about includes some of the most populated areas of the southeastern United States, which are likely to be one of the first regional investment points for high-speed rail.

Topic:

High-Speed Rail Policy

Category:

Institutional

What is it?

a committee press release

Publication Information:

This release was published by the Southeast High-Speed Rail Corridor.  It was published on January 8, 2008 from joint locations in Atlanta, Charlotte, and Greenville.

Authors:

David Spear, Pete Poore, and Joan Bagherpour

Location:

http://www.sehsr.org/news.html

Accessed:

February 8, 2009

Support:

Gena Evans, Georgia Transportation Commissioner

H.B. “Buck” Limhouse Jr., South Carolina Transportation Secretary

Lyndo Tippett, North Carolina Transportation Secretary

Gena Evans said that every transportation method must be explored in the rapidly growing southeast region of the United States.  “Buck” Limehouse said that the southeast is one of America’s mega-regions, and need to be connected with the northeast in an energy-responsible way.  Lyndo Tippett said said North Carolina has been working a long time with Virginia on high-speed rail options, and looks forward to working with South Carolina and Georgia to connect all their major economic centers.

Audience and Agenda:

The visitors to the Southeast High Speed Rail Corridor’s website are residents of the southeastern United States concerned with rail travel on the eastern seaboard.  They use this source for updates on the development of the corridor.  They expect information from politicians and other private organizations including summaries and full reports.

The U.S. Department of Transportation and the state governments of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia fund the Southeast High Speed Rail Corridor.  They are the entities funding the website that published the news release.  They are mainly seeking an audience of people that live along the proposed route in major metropolitan areas including Charlotte, Greenville, Atlanta, and Macon.  They are trying to inform the public about the development of high-speed rail on the southeastern United States.  Writers from the Departments of Transportation from the three respective states published this article.

Usefulness:

This source is in a regional context, focusing on the southeast.  The Southeast Corridor was re-designated by the U.S. Department of Transportation in 2001.

The document was created by government-employed writers to inform the public about the development of high-speed rail in the southeastern United States.  This source is an advocacy group manned by southeastern politicians who are favorable to high-speed rail.

It is trying to address all people living in major metropolitan areas along the eastern seaboard in the southeastern United States.  Regional support has to be strengthened before federal support will help high-speed rail.

The source does not directly make an argument, but simply displays what the respective state governments and Departments of Transportation have been talking about and doing.  The southeastern politicians are indirectly advocating high-speed rail by advertising recent developments.

Although it simply displays what the state governments are doing, the website leaves information and news about opponents of high-speed rail.  Their political opponents would not be advertising high-speed rail.

Focusing on the southeast United States, this source relates to Source Notes 1 and Source Notes 5.

Works Cited:

No Author Listed.  “Southeast High Speed Rail Corridor.”  http://www.sehsr.org/

No Author Listed.  “TIER II EIS – RICHMOND TO RALEIGH SECTION.”  http://www.sehsr.org/news.html

No Author Listed.  “Project History.”  http://www.sehsr.org/history.html

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