Check it out:
“By 2025, a network of bullet trains connecting major cities is to feature magnetically levitated, or maglev, linear motor trains running at speeds of more than 310 mph.”
and “third world” nation China is investing $1 Trillion thru year 2020 on their rail system.
By comparison, Obama’s stimulus plan allocates $8 Billion for high speed rail for us; for an incomplete
system. the proposed plan has no east to west coast line, nor can passengers in Detroit, Minneapolis, Chicago get on a train and get to Orlando or Miami, FL due to gaps in the system.
WHY the incomplete system? think the airline and auto manufacturer lobbies have anything to do with this?
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-japan-bullettrain24-2009mar24,0,2177731.story
