And this is needed because?
Good question. Baltimore to Washington in 15 minutes? Is it worth billions? Who is going to ride that train? And how much will tickets cost?
Doesn’t it take an hour plus to travel between the two cities now? Is saving that time going to be worth it to enough people, to pay whatever the increased cost of travel will be?
Relocate the feds to flyover country
Relocate the feds to flyover country
We are a backward banana republic infested by leftist bureaucrats, kleptocrats who all want to get a piece of the action and wacko environmentalists who want a ten thousand page report of the impact of any construction on each of a thousand obscure animal species.
We will be sending colonists to Uranus before such a project could be completed.
;-)
Congestion on I95 can only be fixed by massive widening or fewer vehicles. The rail network is close to full capacity, forcing more freight onto the roads.
It’s financial good sense, and good for business, to use rail.
I live in a semi-rural part of the UK. After 60 years of ripping up rail lines and letting the canals go to pot while funnelling ever more cars into the same old bottlenecks, our local area started putting them back in.
There are new business parks being built out of town, close to the railways and canals which are back in use.
Link roads to the freeway are drawing morning traffic east and away from the congested towns. This road traffic moves freely at speed whereas the westbound road traffic that’s been encouraged by road dependence and urbanisation still turns the trunk roads into car parks.
More and more people are going to work by boat or train, getting to work quicker, and aren’t arriving at work stressed out by the traffic jams.
Hey, with so many fewer living Americans permitted to travel outside their quarters, we’ll be able to afford the very best in transportation for them!