From Jim Abrams at the HuffingtonPost:
President Barack Obama on Thursday outlined plans for a high-speed rail network he said would change the way Americans travel, drawing comparisons to the 1950s creation of the interstate highway system.
Obama was careful to point out that his plan was only a down payment on an ambitious plan that, if realized, could connect Chicago and St. Louis, Orlando and Miami, Portland and Seattle and dozens of other metropolitan areas around the country with high-speed trains.
There’s no guarantee that the nation has the political will – Congress has often tried to reduce support for Amtrak – or the hundreds of billions of dollars and decades it would take to build a comprehensive fast rail system. Read more here.
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I saw this and I’m thrilled to hear it. I’ve ridden trains in Italy and they are fast, efficient and inexpensive. I’ve been stuck for HOURS on delayed trains here in the pacific northwest wondering how it could have gone so wrong. I am hoping our new President can restore and improve our train transport system. HOORAY!
Train infrastructure creation may be used to provide jobs after the predicted financial collapse of the US (late summer 2009?).
References:
1) http://www.leap2020.eu/4th-quarter-2009-Beginning-of-Phase-5-of-the-global-systemic-crisis-phase-of-global-geopolitical-dislocation_a2805.html
2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Nikolaevich_Panarin
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