High speed rail coming to the I-5 corridor

Fast is cool.

Nobody's seeing what's really going to happen. If you're from Seattle you'll understand.
This will not happen. For whatever reason, Washington State Government will want something stupid for it, or some dumb addition. And that will be the first stall.
The second will be when Seattle's City Council decides that their neighborhood doesn't need the added noise of a train two miles away. So that will cause problems.
It's an awesome idea, but anyone from Washington knows that the state loves to mess cool things up.
I bet the train ends up only running from Vancouver to Blaine, then Portland to Eugene. WEE!!!

Sorry about being so negative, but it's just disgusting what Washington State politicians do to destroy the awesome state of Washington.

This can't happen fast enough. We need high speed rail and we need it now.

Special? Whew, the last 1,000 times I heard someone invoke that word they were being carried off wrapped with a white jacket. But I guess maybe it's OK to use that word for States. Yes, it must be an EXCEPTION.

States can't be bipolar.

And my idea for a suspended monorail can NEVER FLY EITHER because making the trains into half-flying machines above the traffic would make it possible for every State in the Union to build them no matter how traffic congested... which would mean the blasted things would be built everywhere making NONE OF THEM SPECIAL.

So it's a reversal violation of the STATES CAN BE SPECIAL INDIVIDUALS CANNOT RULE.

That I am able to understand my own posts almost makes me special.

make it so.

I got 10 bucks says the windshield wiper blows off when it passes 120.

Yay ! I will be ridin' it .

It's about time, this is going to be a great thing for the northwest.

Yes Yes Yes!, but isn't it Grand? Poor folks get to help people far off have a new train and in return we keep a steady supply of FOOD STAMPS, and nobody knows who paid for what on what day! except we all know what gets done to gypsies no matter where they live.

Freedom take a deep breath and don't ever, ever, ever find yourself living in New Orleans when a hurricane comes and tax money runs.

There are two Americas. There is the progressive America of the coasts and Great lakes that is a bit closer to Europe and where people are more outward looking and less traditional, more secular than their cousins, and much more multicultural.

And then there is the other America; rural, more towards the interior, inward looking, less progressive, more conservative and more traditional, more religious and less diverse.

Not that I am promoting any of the two. But it just seems that you might as well be in a whoe different country when you go from one to the other.

How DARE you sir! We'unz down heah in Geoygia know that th only way we ever get one heah is if everyone else gets one fust theah. So we all haf ta pitch togethah and get every one else thair own train.

Train. Train set. Yep. Merry X-Mas. Ohhhh, down South look away look away look away Dixie Land values not forgotten look away look away look away yep, look away.

while i'm all for this, I don't think it's the best thing to pay for right now with taxpayers money. CA govt is already asking for handouts. we need to manage our money better and prioritize.

Although I've never been to the Pacific Northwest I think a vacation shall be in order if this project gets done.

That train could use LESS ENERGY if it was a
suspended Monorail with wings added to the sides.

#1 > Suspended above all the other ground traffic making it

#2 > No interfering with GROUND TRAFFIC.

#3 > I just added wings for the {ugh} INCREASED EFFICIENCY?

Just send my Royalty check to the Gravity_Man Foundation. And I want the statue in my likeness to be bigger than Lenin's... with me standing beside a Conestoga wagon. And the writing on the front should say at the bottom of the pit lies a big big man, Big Bad John O'Riley my uncle from Hollins Virginia. (Minus the "O'" because somebody in the past took it off so we would all be assimilated better.)

Though I'm an east-coaster I can understand the need for a high-speed rail. I know a massive project was started through the American Recovery and Re-investment Act that Obama pushed for, it included setting up light-rail and high speed rail system all across the nation. Is this one of those projects?

really cool. I can just hop on and go seattle!!!
I think it would be super awesome if their was a train that went down the whole west coast. That went from canada to San diego or something. But that's wishfull thinking.

what! ares we gettin' soft like them europeons now!? we needs to buys more trucks not build somes faery railway!

i'm a dmt enthusiast too.

I'm a DMT enthusiast ..... and we will all die out by starvation soon.

Please define high speed?

180 MPH plus and it should push 600 MPH

California desperately needs a high speed train, and to get those damn big fuel sucking hogs off the highways and their cargo onto trains.

But nothing can happen until all the greedy opportunists get to weasel their way to make all the money on it, here in California.

Wish we'd get that down here on the other end of I-5!

so only after i have no reason to go from my home town eugene, to portland oregon, dose some fancy fast,million times better then the greyhound come along?
well hell!!
i gusse ill have to go see awsome shows up state! i figure this will be allmost compleated in 5 years.

Definintely not a boondogle that is for sure.

I think it will great opportunities for people in the Northwest. You could live in Eugene and work in Portland or live somewhere in between Portland and Tacoma/Seattle and work in either one.

It would revolutionize the area eventually and provide more jobs and opportunities for investors.

Great idea and about time we did some catch up with the rest of the industrial world. Will be especially beneficial between Portland and Seattle where there are already too many cars on I-5. Been there done that.

Would be real nice if it gets completed before the Olympics in Vancouver, but that may be wishful thinking on my part.