3.29.2010

Why High Speed Rail Actually Needs to be, Well, High Speed

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When Obama announced plans to build high speed rail corridors in the US, it was some of the most exciting news I'd heard from his then-nascent administration. Yes, it was universally recognized that the $8 billion allotted in the stimulus bill (combined with an additional billion a year for the next five years in the budget) was hardly enough to build a rail corridor--much less complete the ambitious plans for rail around the country. Yet slowly but surely, the plans a...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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