[lbo-talk] billions for high-speed rail!

Sandy Harris sandyinchina at gmail.com
Tue Feb 17 20:42:56 PST 2009


Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


> The president's "signature" issue. There's a massive $8 billion chunk of
> the stimulus dedicated to creating a European-style network of high-speed
> passenger trains...

I've used the European & Chinese (http://wikitravel.org/en/High-speed_rail_in_China) high-speed rail systems and they're great. Nice to think America may be catching up. I wonder if Canada might follow.

However, I'm not sure about the economics vs. population density. It might work in dense areas, say Boston-NY-Washington, but not others.

-- Sandy Harris, Quanzhou, Fujian, China



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