[jacknhoo]

"We don’t have high speed rail and never had it.

Exactly my point, you don't have (yet, supposedly one was built on the Northeast corridor) high speed rail.

Why don't you have high speed rail?!

Because the train has to run on OLD tracks that run through towns and road intersections, etc, where humans and livestock and cars come in proximity of the track or train and the tracks turn too sharp or are not strong enough for high speed.



They don't run on new ones built high above the ground...isolated and protected and strong and straight.



Why didn't they build new tracks?! Because they could not steal the property to do so and could not buy it...that would be huge lawsuits and legal battles and of course new costs.



Imminent domain is not the easy piece of pie you think it is. But, to socialists, it probably seems like nothing is out of the government's reach...you know those who have been raised in Massachusetts, Connecticut, California, etc. I sure am glad I left that atheistic socialist state of Massachusetts in 2008.

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Acela Express (often simply Acela) is Amtrak's high-speed rail service along the Northeast Corridor (NEC) in the Northeast United States between Washington, D.C., and Boston via Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York.

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Acela Express trains are the only true high-speed trainsets in North America; the highest speed they attain is 150 mph (240 km/h), though they average less than half of that.

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FRA regulations do not permit any speeds above 150 mph (241 km/h) on tracks that are shared with freight and slower passenger trains regardless of circumstances; speeds above 150 mph (241 km/h) would require purpose-built dedicated track on a separate right of way.

The slowest section of the electrified NEC is the portion owned by Metro-North Railroad and the Connecticut Department of Transportation between New Haven, Connecticut and New Rochelle, New York. Trains here are limited to only 90 mph (145 km/h) on a 4-mile (6.4 km) stretch in New York State, and to 75 mph (121 km/h) between the New York state line and New Haven.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acela_Express

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High-Speed Rail Will Take Michigan Nowhere Fast http://www.mackinac.org/10890

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This is ALL about getting people "committed" to the Democratic (socialist) Party of America through their jobs...through their livelihood....who is going to be employed on these jobs? Union thugs!

[outpostinmass2]

Eminent not Imminent Never said it was easy just pointing out it used every day in this country to build highways. How much does that cost? The rail you refer to in the northeast was electrified from New Haven to Boston and then welded rail was implemented. Most of the restrictions on speed are because of the many old bridges the trains cross. The Acela actually handles curves quite nicely. Don't forget those same socialist are out building the interstate highway system. More union thug jobs.