Over at Planetizen, the self-professed rail devotee Jeffrey Barg considers the slow-moving progress of rail infrastructure in the United States....
When you’re building a network with the potential of transforming and uniting a region that, taken collectively, has the sixth-largest GDP in the world, the only certain thing you can say about the benefits is that they’ll be far-reaching, catalytic and virtually impossible to quantify. This could turn the Northeast megaregion into an international juggernaut, an economic and cultural competitor on the entire world’s stage. \nGiven the inroads made possible with the $8 billion allotted for high-speed rail projects in Obama's stimulus plan, as well as the the high-speed progress of rail systems in other countries, how confident are you that the United States can play a feasible game of catch-up with the rest of the world?
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