Amtrak announces its vision for East Coast high-speed rail, with Pennsylavania Gov. Ed Rendell declaring it “isn’t a dream, it isn’t a fantasy, it isn’t an illusion.” Funny, that’s exactly what it seems like to me.
JLF’s Michael Sanera takes a look at North Carolina’s proposed not-so-high-speed rail, which will top out at 75 miles per hour. When you can run 80mph easily from here to Wilmington, why would you take a train?
On a related note, Antiplanner notes the sharp drop in highway deaths, claiming “those who oppose construction of new highways can be blamed for the lack of any reduction in highway fatalities between 1991 and 2007.”
