The White House recently had Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood make a trip to Philadelphia's 30th Street station to announce the President's plan to have 80% of Americans access to high-speed rail within 25 years. (So we can be in 25 years what Japan is like today? At least I hope our streets will be that clean by then.)
Great pieces by the New York Times and Washington Post to report the facts of the announcement. The Wall Street Journal made sure to imply some foreign conspiracy about "Japanese-style bullet trains" and the socialist idea of how Amtrak is the "federally subsidized national railroad operator", which it may be but seems somewhat worse when you describe it in such a utilitarian way. (Of course, that probably was their intent.)
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