The future of WHAT is rail?
Connecticut is actually a good location for HSR - but it would require condemnation of more than a trillion dollars of real estate for a straight and level ROW, especially in CT-4 and CT-5, which will never happen.
And, oh, RINO Mark - There's no chance that an HSR project will include Hartford and Springfield, the drugs get there fast enough already.
We are a good location, but as you state, there is no way they can afford to get the real estate needed to make it affordable.
About the only solution I could see is running an elevated rail above medians on I-95, I-91, I-84, I-384, rt9, rt2, rt 15, etc. But talk about expensive infrastructure.