A modern 200-mile-per-hour rail link between Los Angeles and San Francisco will change America’s transportation paradigm. Just like in Europe and Asia, California will develop a profitable system joining all its cities. Nearby states, such as Nevada and Arizona, will link into the network, just like European countries did after France established its network. Jet airplanes will be used for what they were intended: long-distance travel. Automobile use will be reduced. This will save millions of barrels of oil. And that’s the real reason these lobbyists want it stopped.
The great high-speed rail lie, excellent explanation in the Chronicle how the US is falling further and further behind, clinging to old modes of transportation, thanks to oil and other lobbies.
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