OBAMA HIGH-SPEED RAIL PLAN Picks Up Steam (LINKS, POSSIBLE ROUTES)

treehugger.com:

The $8 billion investment in a high-speed rail system could effectively modernize much of the US railroads. And in the process, modernize the very concept of traveling by train as well--an idea of travel deemed antiquated by much of the nation. The only sector in which Amtrak makes an actual operating profit on running trains is in the Northeast, where larger cities are closer together than in other parts of the nation, and the primary infrastructure has been in place for decades.

Here's an older map revealed in speculation about Obama's High-Speed Rail Plan

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Comments

[desertman]

01:21 PM on 04/29/2009

With the airlines in a business death spiral, and mass motoring doomed, we need a national passenger rail system desperatel­y. But we already have one that used to be the envy of the world before we abandoned it. And we don’t have either the time or the resources to build a new parallel network.