Posted on 02/11/2017 4:53:52 PM PST by repentant_pundit
Could Donald Trump be the president who brings high-speed rail to America?
The Obama administration spent nearly $10 billion to improve passenger rail service across the country. While it accomplished that goal to some degree, it did not build the faster trains passengers can ride in Europe, Japan and China.
Trains in other countries can travel 200 mph or more, but no train in the United States as yet travels faster than 150 mph. Most go much more slowly than that.
Trump has proposed a $1 trillion investment in U.S. infrastructure, and he has expressed interest in improving roads, bridges, airports and passenger trains.
The subject came up in a White House news conference Friday with Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe.
Through a translator, Abe said Trump would make “major-scale investments” in infrastructure, including high-speed rail.
He said Japanese technology could cut the travel time between Washington and New York to one hour from the current three.
Before a meeting with airline executives on Thursday, Trump had openly lamented the lack of high-speed rail in the United States.
“I don’t want to compete with your business,” Trump said, “but we don’t have one fast train.”
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High speed trains would be massively (and I do mean MASSIVELY) expensive to build and would require NEVER-ENDING MASSIVE SUBSIDIES. Don’t do it, Donald.
The big problem is that one has to butt crack Mecca while dealing with the shoe-Islam thing.
Amtrak on steroids is still Amtrak.
Willie Green left us too soon.
Trump to Obama “You didn’t build that”.
Glad Obozo failed and hoping Trump rejects the idiocy of this boondoggle. This is nothing more than union appeasement.
Well, based on the ‘suckess’ of the short runs that have been put in place..................DON’T DO IT!
Trump is a businessman. No way he will push the high speed train mantra. It’s a money loser plain and simple. High speed trains are a wet dream of the left. No one else cares.
Nooooooo
High speed rail is a boon doogle
High speed rail in the US is idiotic. The government needs to get out it and about a million other things until the debt is paid off.
Actually the government just needs to get out it.
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High speed rail isn’t really “high speed” and it costs way too much for the tiny benefit it would provide.
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The leftards and their love for train travel. The fidiots refuse to accept the fact that there are very few population concentrations in the US to warrant it.
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Hooterville Trolley to pixley!
Total bullshit.
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High speed? More like high-priced rail that nobody will ride, and that we’ll ALL pay for for the rest of our lives. If there’s a viable way to transport people by rail that doesn’t lose money, Norfolk & Southern and CSX would be doing it right now.
Last thing we need is to link illegal alien metropolis’ together.
Oh yeah that 19th century technology is the way to go!
It will just give the terrorists (foreign, and domestic) something else to sabotage.
It also gives them another place where they can restrict the second amendment.
If high speed rail is a good idea, private investors will fund it.
Not the tax payer.
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