[a fool in paradise]

High speed road doesn’t sound as sexy to socialist utopian corporate connect planners as High speed rail.

[JennysCool]

Yup. If it isn’t what they regard as “European,” they aren’t interested.

[American in Israel]

You can move a heck of a lot more people with a lane of freeway than you can with a train. But trains generate fares that can be easily embezzled, so leftists prefer trains.