News and Politics | February 18, 2009 | 3 comments

Potential Corridors for High Speed trains

source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/18/map-of-potential-high-spe_n_167804.html

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After much clamoring by energy hawks, who knows what it was that finally brought high-speed rail to the stimulus -- perhaps a little nudge from ol' Amtrak Joe? -- but it got in, to the tune of $8 billion.

And now the question is, where will the expansion be? Matthew Yglesias reports on possible new high speed rail expansion:

In a last-minute change, the total quantity of funds available was increased. But there's no special plan for Las Vegas. The money will be spread all across the country. As it happens, I think an LA-Vegas HSR line is a perfectly reasonable project. But in practice the areas that will get a leg up should be the Federal Railroad Administration's officially designated high-speed rail corridors. As it happens, LA-Vegas doesn't make the cut. But guess who does have such a corridor? Ohio!

Well well well, finally welcome to the 21st century and its only 8 billion dollars. 2 months of war in Iraq would had paid for all the US to have TGV's!!!
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3 comments // Potential Corridors for High Speed trains

  • Beatrix_Kiddo
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      Beatrix_Kiddo  

    • If this becomes a reality, I would be really really happy that i could get back home after a night of drinking my face off instead of crashing on my homie's couch.

      Only problem is----I'm in CO and live outside of town at that, our damn bus system doesn't even go there......haha *~*~Couch surfer for life~*~*

    • 3 years ago
  • nursediesel
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      nursediesel  

    • They have been trying to get this into Pennsylvania for decades. It keeps going back and forth, yes-no-yes-no maybe it'll get done now. They've had these succesfully in Europe for a long time, we're just so attached to one car per person it's unrealistic.

    • 3 years ago
  • stopnoise
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      stopnoise  

    • I only agree with high speed trains if the engineers does not make the same mistake as they did in the past by "forgetting" to separate the train path from people and traffic path. The conclusion of their dumb mistake it is that Today, Communities all over America are sick and suffers from that stupid train horn noise. It is these type of mistakes that keeps rolling over for Years and Yeas of Government and Public corruption circumventing Ethics and the Law.

    • 3 years ago
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