(High-Speed Rail Now, 02/14/2007)
Summary:
High-Speed Rail Now, a blog advocating high-speed rail, posted a photo of a high-speed train in Europe running next to a crowded freeway. This source juxtaposes what travel is like with a car and what travel is like on a high-speed train.
Topic:
Category:
citizen
What is it?
a photo from a blog
Publication Information:
The name of the publication is High-Speed Rail Now. The photo was posted on February 14, 2007.
Author:
no author listed
Location:
http://highspeedrailnow.blogspot.com/2007/02/freeway.html
Accessed:
March 9, 2009
Support:
TGV, a high-speed rail operator in France
A TGV train is pictured next to a crowded freeway.
Audience and Agenda:
There is no data on the number of visitors to High-Speed Rail Now. The Majority of visitors to High-Speed Rail Now are non-professionals with little background knowledge who are interested in high-speed rail. They use this source for general information through posts, pictures, and videos. They expect non-professional posts with a lot of links by someone advocating high-speed rail.
High-Speed Now is a free blog on Blogger, and fully supported by the creator. It addresses a general audience of anybody interested in high-speed rail. It is advocating high-speed rail in the United States.
Usefulness:
This blog is in a global context, because it promotes high-speed rail in the United States using support from around the world. This photo was posted by a citizen advocate who wanted to show Americans how inefficient driving cars is compared to taking a fast train. That could be a good bargaining chip for high-speed rail in the U.S.
This source is addressing anybody who sees all the good things in Europe and thinks of how far behind the U.S. is. That’s a good strategy, because even the president has referenced how the U.S. can still compete with the rest of the world in his inauguration speech.
This document leaves out the location of the photo. After looking at some pictures of a TGV train, the location became clear. It also leaves out the context of this photo. There might have been an extraneous circumstance that made the freeway crowded. Finally, the photo obviously won’t convey any of the technical requirements behind high-speed rail.
With an international focus, this source relates to Source Notes 18. Being an image, this source relates to Source Notes 23, Source Notes 26, Source Notes 17, and Source Notes 24.
Works Cited:
Blogger. <https://www.blogger.com/start>
High-Speed Rail Now. <http://highspeedrailnow.blogspot.com/>
“TGV.” Wikipedia. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TGV>
Filed under: Citizen
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