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Extending high-speed rail service throughout the Midwest would be a nice alternative - though no replacement - to highway travel, but unfortunately, neither the economics nor the actions of government suggest it will happen anytime soon.
Indeed, for all the talk of spreading European-style high-speed rail throughout the United States, there is only one place where it makes immediate sense to experts - the heavily traveled Northeast corridor, which is already, at 12 million passengers a year, nearing capacity.See the full content of this document
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High-Speed Rail the Issue: Amtrak Looks to Northeast. Our View: We Still Need Highways.
Midwesterners yearning for the day when passenger rail service might once again link our major cities will find no hope in Amtrak's latest initiative, which would focus...
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