A Need For Speed?
"Imagine boarding a train in the center of a … whisking through towns at speeds over 100 … and ending up just blocks from your destination." That's the vision President Obama laid out in April while unveiling his plan to spend $13 billion on high-speed rail (HSR) by 2014. But will it ever become a reality? Next month, D.C. will split the first funds among 11 designated corridors. A road map for the journey ahead:
A BETTER-CONNECTED AMERICA
Advocates see HSR as a green way to link the megaregions of the future (shaded). Start with the highest-impact projects, they say, then grow the network.
HOW THE U.S. MEASURES UP
With only one slower, shorter line in service (the Acela), we're far behind the leading HSR nations.
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Andrew Romano is a senior writer for Newsweek. He reports on politics, culture, and food for the print and Web editions of the magazine and appears frequently on CNN and MSNBC. His 2008 campaign blog, Stumper, won MINOnline's Best Consumer Blog award and was cited as one of the cycle's best news blogs by both Editor & Publisher and the Deadline Club of New York. Follow Andrew on Twitter.
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