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am trarks unlike our commuter rail, unlike our subway the, does have a manifold of everybody that rides amtrak, they check your name as you walk down, so it doesn t seem to me that difficult to do and i ve discussed it with secretary la hood and others in amtrak and we re going to work as hard as we can to get this done as quickly as possible. reporter: meanwhile, at a news conference here at penn station this morning, transportation secretary ray la hood announcing a huge new investment in high-speed rail. some $2 billion that florida turned down to improve the rail system in that state, now being reinvested in the northeast corridor and other states. fifteen states in all, 22 high-speed rail projects across the northeast and the midwest. nearly $800 million of it in the northeast corridor. they talked about increasing speeds, from 135-160 miles per hour, reducing power failures, upgrading trains, upgrading rails, reducing bottlenecks. ....

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