Thursday, January 5, 2012

California’s High-Speed Rail To Nowhere

Wolf Richter www.testosteronepit.com


I have used high-speed rail extensively in Europe and Japan. For medium distances, from city center to city center, it’s faster than flying. In the US, there is only the Acela Express, which runs on old track. I took it countless times from Manhattan to DC. It was hassle free and fast. High-speed rail works. But not the way California is doing it.
They offered voters a plan and a website with renderings of cool-looking trains. It would

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