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Originally Posted by Crawford
No one is going to ride a suburban Orlando--suburban Tampa high speed link. Complete pork, and part of the reason Obama has been such a failure. That was Obama's best funded route. Apparently he couldn't find a more deserving location.
Or what about high-speed rail in Iowa? Sounds like a real winner. I'm sure millions are clamoring to ride to Council Bluffs.
High speed rail should first be spent in the Northeast. Then maybe California. All these other routes are jokes, and are just Obama payback.
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You've got that all wrong. Obama has taken some of the cash and used it to return pre-existing Amtrak service to a more competitive respectable service, with increased speeds, more round trips and in the case of Iowa, restoring trains service which hadn't existed since the 60's and studies showed would garner encouraging levels of ridership - which is really the current goal of Amtrak: Steadily increase the quality of train operations, restoring the system to service levels efficiencies comparable to other 1st world nations all with the goal of building a strong rider population with hopes of reaching critical mass which will lead to bigger and better investments which translate to greater and greater mode share for intercity passenger rail. With a dream, a underdeveloped glimmer, that true high speed rail will eventually come down the road.