April 12, 2021 2:46PM
Why Is Biden Talking about High‐Speed Trains and Supersonic Planes When His Infrastructure Plan Doesn’t Include Either One? SHARE
“The Interstate Highway System transformed the way we traveled, lived, worked, and developed,” said President Biden in the March 31 speech introducing his American Jobs Plan. “Imagine what we can do, what’s within our reach, when we modernize those highways,” he continued. “You and your family could travel coast to coast without a single tank of gas onboard a high‐speed train.”
The late Senator Arlen Specter shares a ride on an Amtrak train with then‐Vice President Joe Biden in 2009.
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Michael Testerman
Letâs amend the title of your Jan. 23, 2021 editorial to read, âTime for passenger rail advocates, transportation officials and elected leaders to think big.â And by âbig,â we mean from a transformative, nationwide, transportation-policy perspective.
Everyone is on a learning curve as we plan to expand passenger rail to regions that have little or no service.
Your editorial notes the emerging wisdom of thinking across state lines; extending passenger rail service beyond Bristol, to serve Knoxville and Chattanooga; just like the Interstate highways do. When Virginia conducted the original passenger rail TransDominion Express (TDX) studies three decades ago, reaching Bristol was the end goal.
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