Stimulus bill includes hi-speed rail! But where?

Not to Iowa, unfortunately (reasonably, though, since Iowa has no multi-million-person population centers). But just imagine the tens of millions of people who could be served! Compared to auto or air, it’s a huge environmental savings.

And on weekends, think of, say, the football traffic on the Chicago Hub Network.

clipped from www.huffingtonpost.com High-speed rail corridors 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? the areas that will get a leg up should be the Federal Railroad Administration’s officially designated high-speed rail corridors

What possibilities do you see?

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