If you had trains running from DC to NYC in 40 minutes, all you’ve done is turn Washington into a suburb of New York City — and vice versa. How many jobs does this actually create, unless it’s in a massive Federal bureaucracy?
Whaaaaat? Think of the workers needed to construct the mag lev trackways. The work would be done by local generals and sub-contractors getting the work as it proceded across each State. That could be written into the Authorization. It should be no different than I-83 was with Pres. Ike.