The Anonymous Widower

The United States Thinks High-Speed Trains

I’ve always felt that the United States is ideal for high-speed trains.  Many of the journeys that people do by air or car are between large cities a couple of hundred miles apart.  But for some reason no-one in the States seemed to feel that way.  But now Barack Obama has provided $8billion of funding to kick start high-speed rail. 

This paragraph is from an article by the Intelligent Optimist.

And perhaps the best part is that to get there we are going to create a lot of jobs. The California High-Speed Rail Authority estimates that building the new railroad will create more than 600,000 construction-related jobs while there will be an estimated demand for an additional 450,000 permanent jobs in the state once the system is fully built. That’s real economic stimulus in a time when that’s needed the most.

That’s a lot of jobs.

February 15, 2010 - Posted by AnonW | Transport/Travel | Barack Obama, Trains, United States