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To: Willie Green
“Whereas European and Asian firms have long experience of building dedicated high-speed systems with trains hurtling along at 200 mph or more, what most American firms plan to offer is medium-speed trains running on existing freight tracks” at a theoretical 80 mph between numerous stops...

Your car will be faster. And do these proposals count the massive cost of this land grab? Or the subsidy per passengers per trip costs?

Proving once again that moving back to the 19th Century is a very costly socialist bad idea.

13 posted on 07/10/2010 6:30:25 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine .. now it is your turn..)
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To: PIF
at a theoretical 80 mph between numerous stops...

Do you have a source for this deceitful misinformation that you attempted to append to the quote from the article???

14 posted on 07/10/2010 6:43:44 AM PDT by Willie Green (Save Money: Build High-Speed Rail & Maglev and help permanently ground Air Force One!!!)
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